stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet a key scientific difficulty tends to be downplayed, or even …

The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment … behind any such behavioral spillover. Results suggest that a) there is a negative spillover effect of corruption on trust and … a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit social appropriateness norm of actions in the bribery game and the …

How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust … country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings … from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS trust question captures expectations about others' trustworthiness …

We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is … that is lower by 10 pp. In addition, Google Trends data show that public interest in corruption is correlated with interest …

We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two …

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …. -- Habsburg Empire ; trust ; corruption ; institutions ; borders … localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European …

inefficient welfare states, as a function of the civicness of the citizens. -- welfare state ; trust ; civism ; corruption …

Using novel longitudinal data, this paper studies the short- and medium-term effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on … February 24, 2022 on social trust of adolescents in Germany. Comparing adolescents who responded to our survey shortly before … how armed conflicts influence social trust and well-being among young people in a country not directly involved in the war. …