We look at the effect of importance of religion in daily life on social trust, defined as the share of a population … trust, both internationally and within the U.S. The size of this association increases with the degree of religious …

the role of social trust. This is in turn defined as the confidence people have that strangers, i.e. fellow citizens on … substantial literature has found that social trust is associated with a set of different macroeconomic outcomes: economic growth …-being are all influenced by the propensity of people within any nation to trust each other. The questions are therefore where …

We look at the effect of religiosity on social trust, defined as the share of a population that thinks that people in … general can be trusted. This is important since social trust is related to many desired outcomes, such as growth, education … call for behaving well to others, religious groups may primarily trust people in their own groups and distrust others, as …