Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2009
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 …