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Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa / Jacob Moscona, Nathan Nunn, James A. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moscona, Jacob.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23196.
- NBER working paper series no. w23196
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Keeping It in the Family
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- We present evidence that the traditional structure of society is an important determinant of the scope of trust today. Within Africa, individuals belonging to ethnic groups that organized society using segmentary lineages exhibit a more limited scope of trust, measured by the gap between trust in relatives and trust in non-relatives. This trust gap arises because of lower levels of trust in non-relatives and not higher levels of trust in relatives. A causal interpretation of these correlations is supported by the fact that the effects are primarily found in rural areas where these forms of organization are still prevalent.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2017.
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