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. …

results highlight that a higher level of trust in school promotes one's competition, participation, and motivation in math …. However, this positive effect of trust maintains mainly in mixed-sex environments but not in single-sex competitions. The … trust effect is exhausted in gender-matching environments, probably because single-sex matches reduce unfairness caused by …

support and satisfaction with democracy and trust in institutions. The analysis shows that perceptions of higher insecurity … trust in institutions, particularly in those that directly deal with crime (police and judicial system). There is regional … variation in relation to trust in institutions that are associated with drug-trafficking activity. …

recent years. In this context, the question of which institutions promote financial development seems particularly important …. Therefore, the theories that explain the relationships between formal or informal institutions (law systems, trade openness …, trust, social capital, political groups, etc.) and financial development have been introduced in recent literature. The aim …

This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …