anonymous church donations may play an important role in building social trust. -- signaling ; anonymity ; public goods ; club … goods ; experiments ; social trust ; reciprocity …

Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment among a random sample of Muslim and Hindu … trust experiment in terms of fractions sent or returned, but the responses to the survey questions do indicate significant … differences. Hindus, the minority, trust other people less in general, while Hindus trust Muslims more than Muslims trust Hindus. …

We look at the effect of religiosity on social trust, defined as the share of a population that thinks that people in … general can be trusted. This is important since social trust is related to many desired outcomes, such as growth, education … call for behaving well to others, religious groups may primarily trust people in their own groups and distrust others, as …

We look at the effect of importance of religion in daily life on social trust, defined as the share of a population … trust, both internationally and within the U.S. The size of this association increases with the degree of religious …

The role of anonymity in giving is examined in a field experiment performed in thirty Dutch churches. For a period of …

varies over time and place. We address this problem by exploiting quasi-random variation in the religion of rulers in the … religion of the ruler had no statistically significant impact on Muslim literacy, railroad ownership, or post office provision …