COVID-19 pandemic on social trust, reciprocity, solidarity as well as institutional trust. Using incentivized outcome … questions on trust and solidarity towards fellow citizens, people from other EU countries and non-EU countries, we assess the … positive treatment effects on solidarity. Our study further establishes that the pandemic reduces trust in institutions, in …

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

This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio … endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people trust others more, and importantly, help create more social capital …

Research on "trust" now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this … research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more … confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the extent that scholars have a clear idea of what trust actually means, the …

We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the … bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement treatment conditions in which Syrian refugees play a trust game … show higher levels of trust and (un)conditional trustworthiness when they interact with a Syrian compared to when …

incorporates three key dimensions of personal social capital; (i) structural (personal ties), (ii) cognitive (trust) and (iii … argue that tolerance acts as a bridging mechanism between trust and ties in affecting overall wellbeing. Using ordered … improves life satisfaction. Of the social capital indicators, we find that trust in institutions has the largest marginal …