A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate … the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump …-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available in the European Social Survey. We show that heterogeneity of trust …

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …

questions in the context of a trust game by asking participants directly about their notions of cheating. We find that: i) both … parties to a trust exchange have implicit notions of what constitutes cheating even in a context without promises or messages …; ii) these notions are not unique – the vast majority of senders would feel cheated by a negative return on their trust …

Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate … one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming trust beliefs about the same pool of potential partners – i.e., more …

trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …

and start over as new sellers. Buyer trust and seller trustworthiness decrease significantly when sellers can erase their … ratings. With identity changes, trust is particularly low towards new sellers since buyers cannot discriminate between truly …

This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the … General Social Survey from 1973-2010. The easier divorce culture is defined as the introduction of no-fault including … unilateral divorce reforms across the US. According to the results, the divorce revolution seems to have had some effect on trust …