This paper connects two strands of the literature on social trust by estimating the effects of trust on growth through … squares estimator on a sample of countries for which a full data set is available. The results indicate that trust affects … effect (rule of law) on the growth rate. The paper closes with a short discussion of the relevance of the findings. …

trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin … American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust … the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs. …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average …, the trust coefficient is half as large as in previous findings. …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average …, the trust coefficient is half as large as in previous findings. …