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 factors - conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs … - that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages …

COVID-19 pandemic on social trust, reciprocity, solidarity as well as institutional trust. Using incentivized outcome … questions on trust and solidarity towards fellow citizens, people from other EU countries and non-EU countries, we assess the … in an EU country with a below average COVID-19 incidence show higher levels of trust and reciprocity towards fellow …

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 …

This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio … endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people trust others more, and importantly, help create more social capital …

We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about … others cooperation. Moreover, we show that the fairness question , a recently proposed alternative to the standard trust …

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 …