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. …

results highlight that a higher level of trust in school promotes one's competition, participation, and motivation in math …. However, this positive effect of trust maintains mainly in mixed-sex environments but not in single-sex competitions. The … trust effect is exhausted in gender-matching environments, probably because single-sex matches reduce unfairness caused by …

This paper examines the complementary relationship between institutions and social capital in influencing economic … concept "institutions" in economic literature: rules of the game, rules and players, equilibrium in a repeated game. It … the triple meaning of (i) contractual voids, (ii) deficit of intermediate institutions providing a link between supply and …