raises the other players' beliefs about the donors' trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …, provided these activities work as signals of trustworthiness. This paper shows that donating money to an NGO substantially …

power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with … representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …

one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … trust beliefs after several rounds of game-play. Moreover, we show that one's own type/trustworthiness can be traced back to …Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate …

appears to increase trustworthiness but does not affect trusting behavior. Women and older people are less likely to trust …Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample … of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first …

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme …

of trustworthiness, could generate the non-monotonic relationship between trust and income. Highly trustworthy … evidence showing that own trustworthiness and expectations of others' trustworthiness in a trust game are strongly correlated …A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate …

questions in the context of a trust game by asking participants directly about their notions of cheating. We find that: i) both … parties to a trust exchange have implicit notions of what constitutes cheating even in a context without promises or messages …; ii) these notions are not unique - the vast majority of senders would feel cheated by a negative return on their trust …

We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in … reduce trust and trustworthiness. …. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk aversion do not affect trust, loss aversion influences trust …

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 … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …