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 …

In "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy", Robert D. Woodberry (2012) claims that the emergence of stable … alternative democracy measures and extend the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple … development of democracy, which raises concerns about the robustness and broader applicability of Woodberry's findings. We discuss …

We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system … labor camps, we find that individuals who live near former gulags have low levels of social and institutional trust. Our …

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factorson ict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …-that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages emerging …

How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces … parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing to positive experiences of kin solidarity, may … improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through third-party accounts, on the other hand, reduces trust toward everyone. We find …