Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …

types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a … cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers. …

economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …

We conduct a field trust game under a natural experiment context to test the impacts of urbanisation on trust. We … transformation of trust levels among co-villagers and towards outsiders. We test this conjecture in an experimental approach and more … generally, examine whether the urbanisation will produce significant impacts on in-group trust and out-group trust. The research …

We study the interaction between competition and social proximity on altruism, trust, and reciprocity. We decompose the … behavioral channels by utilizing variants of both the Trust Game and the Dictator Game in a design that systematically controls … outcomes thereof when competitors are socially proximate, affect social preferences. Within the context of the Trust Game, we …

incorporates three key dimensions of personal social capital; (i) structural (personal ties), (ii) cognitive (trust) and (iii … argue that tolerance acts as a bridging mechanism between trust and ties in affecting overall wellbeing. Using ordered … improves life satisfaction. Of the social capital indicators, we find that trust in institutions has the largest marginal …

framework proposes that by combining complementary investments in enforcement, facilitation, and trust, reformers can not only … challenge for governments lies in finding the right combination of these three measures-enforcement, facilitation, and trust … analysis, coupled with careful attention to understanding politics and the drivers of trust in particular contexts, to guide …

-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …