Using a standard trust game, we elicit trust and reciprocity measures in a representative sample of adult players in … other Latin American countries. We find no statistically significant differences in trust levels of Uruguayans towards …

neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is … no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial …

their trust in the government more than those who received a "negative" treatment (showing that the government was under …-performing). The evidence highlights that the channel between transparency and trust may be mediated by the performance of the …

network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the … 'radius of trust': an endogenous network listing the potentially cooperative relationships between pairs of players in a … community. We identify two aspects of trust, which relate to the network structure in different ways. Where trust depends on the …