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

Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …

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. …

background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with …, contributed 15% more in a public goods game, displayed greater "social capital" such as trust in the government and more …

We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the … bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement treatment conditions in which Syrian refugees play a trust game … show higher levels of trust and (un)conditional trustworthiness when they interact with a Syrian compared to when …

Using data from US states, we find a positive relationship between trust and growth. According to our results, a 10 … percentage point increase in trust increases the growth rate of per capita income by 0.5 percentage point, growth rate of housing …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average …, the trust coefficient is half as large as in previous findings. …

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 …