We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …. 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 …

Zum Zusammenhang zwischen ethnischer Heterogenität, Sozialkapital (Vertrauen, freiwilliges Engagement, Mitgliedschaft … Sozialkapital haben die Projektergebnisse den erwarteten negativen Zusammenhang zwischen objektiver, d.h. statistisch ausgewiesener …Existing evidence on the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity, social capital (trust, voluntarism, associational …

Grundlagen der (auch) in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften verwendeten Begriffe "Vertrauen" and "Sozialkapital" erarbeitet, um …" und "Sozialkapital". Zweitens hat sich ergeben, dass beide Untersuchungsgruppen systematisch (mehr oder weniger abstrakten … academic team, composed of Friedrich L. Sell and Martin Reidelhuber, worked on the theoretical basics of "trust" and "social …

to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … especially 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 …

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. …