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 …

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 …

a sign of trust and concern for the employees' well-being or as enhanced monitoring. Both interpretations can explain …

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 …

against low reciprocity to the standard trust game. We compare two different mechanisms, the private (purchase) and the social …