We look at the effect of religiosity on social trust, defined as the share of a population that thinks that people in … general can be trusted. This is important since social trust is related to many desired outcomes, such as growth, education … call for behaving well to others, religious groups may primarily trust people in their own groups and distrust others, as …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … the sample than previously claimed, and that outliers affect the results. Nevertheless trust seems quite important …

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power … Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea is that a market economy, building on voluntary transactions and interactions with … for trust to emerge between people. …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … especially differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The … relationship between income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income …

The paper presents an experimental study of truth telling and trust in communication under asymmetric information. In a … unaffected by this contextual variation. In contrast, decision makers in the competitive context trust the advice less than in … the cooperative context. The data provide evidence that this change in trust is due to different perceptions of the …

the role of social trust. This is in turn defined as the confidence people have that strangers, i.e. fellow citizens on … substantial literature has found that social trust is associated with a set of different macroeconomic outcomes: economic growth …-being are all influenced by the propensity of people within any nation to trust each other. The questions are therefore where …

This paper examines the relationship between trust and economic growth. With the help of panel data I conclude that … economic growth is negatively related to an increase in trust. My result is contrary to works taking a cross section design in … which trust is positively related to growth. The relationship is tested in the context of EU countries, OECD countries …