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 …

This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …

We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially … are, as well as actual trust and trustworthiness are measured incentive compatibly. We find that interpersonal similarity … in religiosity and affiliation promote trust through beliefs of reciprocity. Religious participants also believe that …

classic simple bargaining games (ultimatum, dictator, and trust games). Specifically, we experimentally manipulate sleep … time‐of‐day of the decisions. We find a robust result of increased greed, reduced trust, and reduced trustworthiness …

more effective when contracts are unverifiable because they help market participants overcome problems of trust. On the …

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