trust and cognitive skills among 30 countries around the world. The results show that the strength and direction of the … of this variation provides evidence that the relationship strengthens with the level of democracy in a country. In a … second step, German separation and reunification is used as external variation in the level of democracy in the German PIAAC …

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 …

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …

OSS. Also, social capital in terms of interpersonal trust has a positive impact on the number of OSS developers as well as …

social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …

This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the …

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 …