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 …

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

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany bycombining representative survey data … people s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled … the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those in …

high growth, but based on a simple stylized model of government behavior the expectation is that mainly high trust … countries provides support for this expectation. The difference in fiscal policies depending on government trust levels may help … explaining why better governed countries have been found to have less severe business cycles. It suggests that trust and …

capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …

expresses trust in management coincide with an improved financial situation if not higher productivity growth. Mutual distrust …