vulnerability reduced trust in government and respect for authority and increased preferences for redistribution. Yet information … reduces interpersonal trust. These information effects also map into policy preferences beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Our …

major hypothesis explored is that trust, i.e. a form of social capital, is a less important motivational factor. I find some …

We examine the effect of generalized trust on long-term economic growth. Unlike in previous studies, we use Bayesian … endogeneity and assess whether the effect of trust on growth is causal. Examining more than forty regressors for nearly fifty … countries, we show that trust exerts a positive effect on long-term growth and, based on the posterior inclusion probabilities …

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …