. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of secondgeneration Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …

when government size is not associated with economic growth in the developed stage. (2) Particularized trust is positively … satisfaction when government size impedes economic growth in the economic developing stage. However, this effect clearly decreases … stage. These results are unchanged when the endogeneity bias caused by local government size and proxies of trust are …

This paper connects two strands of the literature on social trust by estimating the effects of trust on growth through … squares estimator on a sample of countries for which a full data set is available. The results indicate that trust affects … effect (rule of law) on the growth rate. The paper closes with a short discussion of the relevance of the findings. …

. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …

higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with …We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows … equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a treatment with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … the sample than previously claimed, and that outliers affect the results. Nevertheless trust seems quite important …

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. …