Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany.
PLoS One. 2013 May 28;8(5):e64791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064791. Print 2013.
Zimbabwean villagers of distinct background have resettled in government-organized land reforms for more than three decades. Against this backdrop, I assess the level of social cohesion in some of the newly established communities by estimating the average preferences for fairness in a structural model of bounded rationality. The estimations are based on behavioral data from an ultimatum game field experiment played by 234 randomly selected households in 6 traditional and 14 resettled villages almost two decades after resettlement. Equal or higher degrees of fairness are estimated in all resettlement schemes. In one, or arguably two, out of three distinct resettlement schemes studied, the resettled villagers exhibit significantly higher degrees of fairness (p ≤ 0.11) and rationality (p ≤ 0.04) than those who live in traditional villages. Overall, villagers appear similarly rational, but the attitude toward fairness is significantly stronger in resettled communities (p ≤ 0.01). These findings are consistent with the idea of an increased need for cooperation required in recommencement.
津巴布韦背景各异的村民在政府组织的土地改革中已经重新定居了三十多年。在此背景下，我通过在有限理性的结构模型中估计公平的平均偏好，评估了一些新建立的社区的社会凝聚力水平。这些估计是基于在 234 个随机选择的家庭中进行的最后通牒博弈实地实验的行为数据，这些家庭来自 6 个传统村庄和 14 个重新安置村庄，在重新安置近 20 年后进行。在所有重新安置计划中，都估计了公平程度相等或更高。在所研究的三个不同的重新安置计划中，在一个或两个计划中，重新安置的村民表现出明显更高的公平程度（p≤0.11）和理性程度（p≤0.04），而不是那些居住在传统村庄的村民。总体而言，村民们看起来同样理性，但重新安置社区的公平态度明显更强（p≤0.01）。这些发现与重新开始时需要合作的增加的想法是一致的。
