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Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2000

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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013

This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...

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Ethnic Diversity and Trust : New Evidence from Australian Data

Mendolia, Silvia; Tosh, Alex; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2016

This paper investigates the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity and individuals’ local and generalised trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance of trust in facilitating economic growth and development. We use fixed...

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Findings from the 2003 Retirement Confidence Survey (Rcs) and Minority Rcs

Paladino, Variny; Helman, Ruth - 2003

The 2003 Retirement Confidence Survey finds that, despite continuing financial uncertainty and wavering consumer … confidence, American workers' confidence in having enough money to live comfortably throughout their retirement has decreased … finds that African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans tend to have lower levels of confidence and that their preparations for …

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Does Diversity Drive Down Trust?

Uslaner, Eric M. - 2006

Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to positive outcomes in societies - from greater tolerance of minority groups and immigrants and willingness to do good deeds, to less corruption, more social welfare and education...

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The Determinants of Trust

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2006

the role of social trust. This is in turn defined as the confidence people have that strangers, i.e. fellow citizens on …

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Tribes as Trustees Again (Part I) : The Emerging Tribal Role in the Conservation Trust Movement

Wood, Mary C. - 2015

This article is the first part of a two-part analysis that maps out a tribal role in the growing conservation trust movement, which uses transactional property mechanisms to achieve natural resource protection on private lands. Since conquest, tribes have been divested of their traditional...

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Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At the same time, there is significant social distance...

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Tribal Leakage : How the Curse of Trust Land Impedes Tribal Economic Self-Sustainability

Clarkson, Esq., Dr. Gavin - 2019

Economic leakage occurs when money leaves or “leaks” away from the local economy sooner than expected and sooner than is optimal. From an ideal economic perspective, money should circulate in the local economy where it was received or earned five to seven times before leaving that community....

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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness across Ethnic Groups : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Bartos, Vojtech - 2018

We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...

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