social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large …, even after conditioning on the attitudes of parents and other controls. This trust deficit persists into early adulthood …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …

Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades … claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test a … commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly unsusceptible …

We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise … to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert … increase the commitment value of proper promises. -- Promises ; guilt ; trust ; credence goods ; experts ; reciprocity …

trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … work, trust in our setting is not about obligations being fulfilled. The contract is complete, simple and the possibility … policy designed to increase consumer information is likely to be ineffective. -- insurance selling ; trust ; persuasion …