's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find … similar negative effects on confidence in public health systems, suggesting that the loss of confidence in political …

negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance mechanism of government size. Theoretically, the net growth effect of … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries …

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 performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions "and particularly trust in banks, business and government" has declined … patterns, but much smaller magnitudes in response to state-specific shocks. -- trust ; institutions ; confidence ; survey data …

. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …

social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …

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 …