and frequency of use of social networks, combined with a number of measures of general and domain-specific trust, which … are often used to gauge effective social capital. Using these measures we find that trust and social network size and use …

transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …