By constructing a unique international database on generalized trust covering 142 countries worldwide for the 41 years … from 1980 to 2020, this paper finds a pronounced intertemporal variation of generalized trust over time in a majority of … generalized trust between OECD and non-OECD economies is found. While the OECD economies saw an increase in generalized trust, the …

By constructing a unique international database on generalized trust covering 142 countries worldwide for the 41 years … from 1980 to 2020, this paper finds a pronounced intertemporal variation of generalized trust over time in a majority of … generalized trust between OECD and nonOECD economies is found. While the OECD economies saw an increase in generalized trust, the …

Using a unique international database on generalized trust covering 142 countries across the world for the 41-year time … period from 1980 to 2020, this paper finds strong evidence that generalized trust at the country level is not stable over … time. 2 In fact, the paper finds a pronounced intertemporal variation of generalized trust over time in many countries …