performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …

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

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …

an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance … of trust in facilitating economic growth and development and it is therefore important to investigate elements of social … organisation that encourage or inhibit the development of trust. We use fixed effects and instrumental variable regression and …

background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with …, contributed 15% more in a public goods game, displayed greater "social capital" such as trust in the government and more …

Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their … correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of … trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which subjects operate. Attitudinal indicators which are often used to …

-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential … trust game, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. Our main … accordingly. Furthermore, we provide evidence of in-group favoritism, i.e., people trust strangers from their own district …