This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with … country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a …

This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with … country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a …

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

People's trust in state and political institutions is a key foundation of a well-functioning economy. We estimate the … impact of direct elections on people's trust in state and political institutions, using a major political reform in Indonesia … the causal impact of the reform. We find that district direct elections increase trust in all state and political …

Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …

Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been … recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy …

Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been … recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy …