Transparency initiatives are well-known tools to foster trust and empower citizens. To explain why some governments … mayor made a set of post-electoral promises. In a setting with relatively high trust priors, our results show that these …, not words, and have, on average, lower initial trust. The treatment effects are entirely through those vaguely familiar …

, and trust in a large sample of rural young adults in Tigray, Ethiopia, belonging to rural business groups. We rely on … social preference types. We also identify reciprocity norms, generosity, trustworthiness, and trust in in-group and out … generosity, trustworthiness, and trust (reduction of 0.6-0.75 Cohen’s d units) that is strongest among those who behaved …

redistribute wealth or to expand the ruling class in order to improve institutions and limit rent-seeking incentives …