We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The relationship between … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … the sample than previously claimed, and that outliers affect the results. Nevertheless trust seems quite important …

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power … Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea is that a market economy, building on voluntary transactions and interactions with … for trust to emerge between people. …

trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin … American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust … the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs. …

capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and significantly …

of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized trust or generalized morality - are strongly and …

In this paper, we argue that an important function fulfilled by intermediaries is to facilitate trust by enabling …

. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to …