We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of … Corporate Headquarters to local plant managers in almost 4,000 firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We find that firms … headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the variation in …

to trust, and specifically that admiring the president is strongly related to trust in government. Using this link we can … provide information on trends in trust on a consistent basis back to the late 1940s, earlier than most other data sources …

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …