We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the …, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results indicate that close personal contact with minorities increases trust … towards a generic immigrant. We replicate the result that individuals coming from more ethnically diverse areas trust …

relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and … controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust is negatively associated with Covid-19 cases and deaths … cases and deaths in countries with high trust in government. We also find evidence that political trust decreases the risk …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …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 …

connectedness increases trade by reducing information asymmetries and by providing a substitute for both trust and formal mechanisms …

study trust and reciprocity in the same context. For all-male groups, we find the same lack of superiority of interaction … treatments over no interaction. For all-female groups, some very simple social interactions have a positive impact on trust …