social trust, social relationships, and social networks as important determinants of self-reported health. The magnitude of …

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. …

types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a … cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers. …

economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …

This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …

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 …

authors identify social trust, social relationships, and social networks as important determinants of self-reported health …