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 …

are characterized by higher levels of trust, and, more generally, of cooperation. Here we study a classic case of within … behavior of a sample of the general population toward trust and contributions to the common good. We find that trust and …