the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

intentions and distributional preferences are consistent with our data while models that focus exclusively on intentions or on …

We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from … communities. Ideologies of community solidarity may well trump those of class solidarity because of the implicit sharing of …

Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question “Generally … the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000) question the validity of this measure by showing that it is not correlated with … senders’ behaviour in the standard trust game, but only with his trustworthiness. By using a large sample of German households …

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual … feelings against racial integration trust relatively less the more racially heterogeneous the community is. … level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: i) a recent history of …

This paper documents a strong positive relationship between individual reported trust levels (obtained from the US … firms). This correlation is robust to the inclusion of all of the previously studied determinants of individual trust, e … competitiveness makes respondents approximately five percent more likely to answer the canonical trust question with a "usually trust …