Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

levels of trust and reduced social activity in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic …

-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …

a sign of trust and concern for the employees' well-being or as enhanced monitoring. Both interpretations can explain …

While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … trusting and trustworthy behavior elicited with the use of the seminal trust game (Berg et al., 1995) and with games …

against low reciprocity to the standard trust game. We compare two different mechanisms, the private (purchase) and the social …