more in countries with high institutional quality than in countries with defective institutions. The results are …

. Specifically, the marginal impact of formal legal institutions decreases with trust, and vice versa. These findings apply both to …

In the paper, we argue that trust is the missing link relating education, institutions, and economic development. We … argue that increased trust both increases education and improves legal and bureaucratic institutions, which in turn spurs … education and the quality of institutions, and that education and institutions in turn affect GDP per capita. …

We report evidence that trust is the missing root relating education, institutions, and economic development. We … observe that more trust both increases education and improves legal and bureaucratic institutions, which in turn spurs … both education and the quality of institutions, and that education and institutions in turn affect GDP per capita …

that exports of manufactured goods are positively affected by the quality of institutions but neither total exports nor … nonmanufactured exports. The latter may even correlate negatively with the quality of institutions. The results are robust to …