This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …

Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample … of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first … trust other immigrants. Immigrants appear to be less trustworthy overall but this finding disappears when we control for …

relevant events. We conduct trust game experiments where the amount sent back by the second player (trustee) is exogenously …

Using a large sample of 1,120 twins, we estimated the heritability of trust using four distinct measures of trust … – domain-specific political trust, general self-reported trust, and incentivized behavioral trust and trustworthiness. Our … results highlight the importance of measuring trust in a context because its heritability differs substantially across the …

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …

. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their … attitudes. We show that trust inherited by second-generation Americans from their country of origins has changed over time. This … result allows us to use the inherited trust of second-generation Americans as a time-varying instrument to track back the …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

stochastic production process in energy use. Special attention is given to the factors that increase the risk or variation of … more to the increase in the mean energy demand than to the reduction in the level of risk. It is recommended that …

with the observability of ethnicity, and the exposure to situations where there is a risk of discrimination, to produce a …

This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome …/or extra labor effort. We find strong evidence that ex-post access to labor opportunities reduces ex-ante risk willingness … while access to tax evasion has no effect on risk behavior. We discuss possible explanations for this result based on the …