children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large …, even after conditioning on the attitudes of parents and other controls. This trust deficit persists into early adulthood …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …

Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been … recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy …

This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using … generalized trust is significantly affected by parental divorce for both men and women. This main result is very robust to … alternative specifications. Furthermore, there is a marginally significant effect on the expressed level of generalized trust due …