We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power … the Economic Freedom Index) increase trust. The idea is that a market economy, building on voluntary transactions and … mechanisms for trust to emerge between people …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average …, the trust coefficient is half as large as in previous findings …

This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with … country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a …

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional … recent literature on the effects of climate on historic trust levels. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of … be better explained by a positive influence of trust on innovation and spatial clustering of trust. …

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …