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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763283
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Confidence in public institutions and the run up to the October 2019 uprising in Lebanon
Fakih, Ali; Makdissi, Paul; Marrouch, Walid; Tabri, Rami V. - 2020
This paper uses the 2013 World Value Survey, as well as the 2016 and 2018 waves of the Arab Barometer, to analyze the … dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most public institutions has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198992
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Institutions, opportunism and prosocial behavior : some experimental evidence
Cabrales, Antonio; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Hernán … - 2020
Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate the demand for different levels of institutions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226471
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Family ties and political participation
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832188
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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor? : conference paper
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338889
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On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457340
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The nature and predictive power of preferences : global evidence
Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2015
for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387557
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Vaccination policy and trust
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021
We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in countries with more transparent and accountable governments. The mechanism that generates this result is the lower probability of a transparent and accountable government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795462
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Trust in the time of corona
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239442
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Revenge of the experts: will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?
Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2020
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in science and scientists. Building on the "impressionable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315543