institutions working on access to rights to consider the development of innovative services in the spirit of microjustice. Moreover …

capital” of traditional institutions? How were they affected by social constraints on women? It finds that people in central … Europe did desire to increase market work and consumption. But elites used the “social capital” of traditional institutions …

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

trust in institutions. We present empirical evidence to argue that the underlying mechanism is a perceived illegitimate …We study how the stringency of policy measures to counter the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals' trust in formal … institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show …

Previous studies have found that generalized trust positively affects innovation at the country and regional level. We … extend this literature by arguing that there are four reasons to believe that the trust-innovation relationship is … heterogeneous across geographic space. First, there is a saturation effect where regions in the lower half of the trust distribution …