Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … is measured by indicators of individual values and beliefs, such as trust and respect for others, and confidence in … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as …

We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …

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 …

We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western … shares of the candidates. Voters’ trust in electoral institutions does not seem to depend on individual failing local …

While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … trusting and trustworthy behavior elicited with the use of the seminal trust game (Berg et al., 1995) and with games …

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows … higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with … equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a treatment with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains …