trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …

Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample … of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first … trust other immigrants. Immigrants appear to be less trustworthy overall but this finding disappears when we control for …

We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

Research on 'trust' now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this … research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more … confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the extent that scholars have a clear idea of what trust actually means, the …

Using data from US states, we find a positive relationship between trust and growth. According to our results, a 10 … percentage point increase in trust increases the growth rate of per capita income by 0.5 percentage point, growth rate of housing …