Gaechter, SimonSimonGaechterHerrmann, BenediktBenediktHerrmannThoeni, ChristianChristianThoeni2023-04-132023-04-132004-12-01https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/6726610.1016/j.jebo.2003.11.006We report survey and experimental evidence on trust and voluntary cooperation from more than 630 non-student and student participants in rural and urban Russia. Our subjects have a diverse socioeconomic background that we relate to the answers of a survey on trust attitudes and to contribution behavior in a one-shot public goods game. We find that the socio-economic background affects trust attitudes, but we find no separate influence of socio-economic variables on cooperative behavior in a one-shot public goods experiment. However, cooperation is significantly positively correlated to trust toward strangers and beliefs about the fairness and helpfulness of othersenTrustVoluntary cooperationSocial capitalDemographicsSurveysExperimentsRussiajournal article