'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 …

of trust into the financial industry may stem from the selection of subjects with little, if any, trustworthiness into …: Even among students who are highly motivated to work in finance after graduation, those who actually start their career in … finance are significantly less trustworthy than those who work elsewhere. …

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 …

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 …