The authors examine the importance of trust in the decision to join groups, the subsquent ability of groups to generate trust and the effect of group membership and trust on a measure of well-being, per capita household income. Trust in local agents is an important determinant of membership in...

For capturing dynamic demographic relationships, longitudinal household data can have considerable advantages over more widely used cross-sectional data. But because the collection of longitudinal data may be difficult and expensive, analysts must assess the magnitudes of the problems, specific...