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 …

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 …

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 …

High levels of social trust has been linked to both public sector size and long term economic growth, thereby helping … examines if social trust as a background factor also insulates countries against negative effects of public sector size on … insulating effects. Instead we find robust evidence that high trust aggravates the crowding out effects of public sector size on …

This paper connects two strands of the literature on social trust by estimating the effects of trust on growth through … squares estimator on a sample of countries for which a full data set is available. The results indicate that trust affects …

-country differences in informal institutions, measured by social trust. We note a number of theoretical mechanisms that could imply that … similar objective problems are more likely to be effectively dealt with in higher-trust societies. A set of panel estimates … and growth problems in low-trust countries. This finding sheds light on the differential market reactions to economic …