to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences …

We use an original variant of the standard trust game, in order to study the effect of corruption on trust and …

. This evidence suggests that the trust between the firm and both its stakeholders and investors, built through investments … in social capital, pays off when the overall level of trust in corporations and markets suffers a negative shock …

How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust … country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings … from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS trust question captures expectations about others' trustworthiness …

Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however … correlate with social trust. We show that this relationship is causal. We begin by documenting a positive correlation between … quality of institutions, measured by embezzlement, and social trust using survey data. We then take the investigation to the …

diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. …

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 …

Fairness can be an important factor that promotes social trust among people. In this paper, I investigate empirically … whether fairness between men and women increases social trust. Using the data of the World Value Survey from 91 countries, I … find that gender discriminatory values negatively affect the trust level of both men and women, while actual conditions on …