Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and … study how the effect of social media on trust varies depending on the civility or incivility of online interaction. We find …

economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …