part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …

-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …

. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …

This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using … generalized trust is significantly affected by parental divorce for both men and women. This main result is very robust to … alternative specifications. Furthermore, there is a marginally significant effect on the expressed level of generalized trust due …

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects … trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict … that "fairer" players should trust less. …

, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of …

In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as …). Compared to other measures of trust, using this technique has several advantages: It makes more efficient use of information by … to trust using data from the European Social Survey, we analyze their personal, demographic, and regional determinants …

We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …