Cristin-resultat-ID: 1936908
Sist endret: 23. februar 2022, 14:33
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2021
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021

Preferences, trust, and performance in youth business groups

Bidragsytere:
  • Stein Terje Holden og
  • Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye

Tidsskrift

PLOS ONE
ISSN 1932-6203
e-ISSN 1932-6203
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2021
Publisert online: 2021
Volum: 16
Hefte: 9
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85115300550

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Tittel

Preferences, trust, and performance in youth business groups

Sammendrag

We study how social preferences and norms of reciprocity are related to generalized (outgroup) and particularized (ingroup) trust among members of youth business groups in northern Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government promotes youth employment among land-poor rural youth by allocating them rehabilitated communal lands for the formation of sustainable businesses. The typical sustainable production activities that the groups can invest in include apiculture, forestry, horticulture, and livestock production. Our study used incentivized experiments to elicit social preferences, trust, and trustworthiness. We use data from 2427 group members in 246 functioning business groups collected in 2019. Altruistic and egalitarian preferences were associated with stronger norms to reciprocate, higher outgroup and ingroup trustworthiness and trust while spiteful and selfish preferences had opposite effects. The social preferences had both direct and indirect effects (through the norm to reciprocate) on trustworthiness and trust. Ingroup trust was positively correlated with a number of group performance indicators.

Bidragsytere

Aktiv cristin-person

Stein Terje Holden

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Handelshøgskolen ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet
Aktiv cristin-person

Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Handelshøgskolen ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Mekelle University
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