the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 55, highly … favoring the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those …

social trust, social relationships, and social networks as important determinants of self-reported health. The magnitude of …

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

This paper studies the relationship between trust and foreign direct investment (FDI) in a crosssection of countries …. Accounting for the issue endogeneity, this paper suggests that countries with a higher level of generalized trust attract more … FDI than the low-trust countries. -- trust ; Foreign Direct Investment ; causality …

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 …

suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the … lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …

diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. …