SPACE, TRUST, AND COMMUNAL ACTION: RESULTS FROM FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA*
Jeffrey P. Carpenter,
Amrita G. Daniere,
Lois M. Takahashi,
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont and IZA, Bonn, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorAmrita G. Daniere
Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorLois M. Takahashi
Department of Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Search for more papers by this authorJeffrey P. Carpenter,
Amrita G. Daniere,
Lois M. Takahashi,
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont and IZA, Bonn, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorAmrita G. Daniere
Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorLois M. Takahashi
Department of Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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The authors express their gratitude and appreciation to Dr. Anchana NaRanong at the National Institute for Development Administration in Bangkok, Thailand; Dr. Nguyen Quang Vinh and Ms. Van Thi Ngoc Lan of the Institute for Social Sciences in Ho Chi Minh City, without whom this research could not have been conducted. We also thank Molly Davidson-Welling, Nadia Abu-Zahra, and Jill Wigle of the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto for their substantial contributions. We are grateful to the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Science Foundation (CAREER 0092953) for funding this research. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the very helpful suggestions of Marlon Boarnet and two anonymous referees. We remain responsible for all errors and omissions.
Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper examines the spatial dimensions of trust in two Southeast Asian cities using data from both household surveys and field experiments conducted in low-income communities. The results suggest that space and location are important to understanding communal action and trust in developing countries. Not surprisingly, space matters in different ways depending on culture, history and the political-economy of a particular country or city.
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