return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …

trust are traits that explain permanent differences in the short-run volatility of public goods provision …

determine individuals’ inclination to trust others? We implement an experimental environment that allows us to manipulate prior …’s willingness to trust others. We contrast this situation with a control condition where we keep all aspects of the prior …, subjects’ willingness to trust is substantially higher relative to subjects who made negative social experiences. No such …

behavior of students and the general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two …

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 …

diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust …