Roth, Felix - 2024 - This version: 07.01.2024
Using a unique international database on generalized trust - constructed from more than 1,000 individual national … period from 1980 to 2020, this paper finds strong evidence that generalized trust at the country level is not stable over … time. 2 In fact, the paper finds a pronounced intertemporal variation of generalized trust over time in many countries …