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 …

computational experiments to study the roles of generalized trust and social control for the stability and efficiency of IVTS …. Previous literature was ambiguous with regard to: (i) how trust and control should be operationalized formally, (ii) which, if … experiments suggest answers to all these questions. We show that both trust and control are necessary, but not sufficient to …

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. …

Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …

and Jordanians. More specifically, we report results regarding risk preferences, trust, and altruism. It turns out that …

to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …

Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …

that sharing economy services do not require high levels of social trust to succeed. Rather, they provide institutions that … services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey … exist in over 100 countries, allowing us to construct a measure of sharing economy penetration to test against social trust …

Differences in trust levels between countries explain the observed discrepancies in entrepreneurial spirit amongst them … variation in entrepreneurial spirit across countries in the world is driven by trust considerations. This result is robust to … incentives to nurture entrepreneurship must be maintained, policy makers should also seek to pay attention to the role of trust …