We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with …

to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences …

We use an original variant of the standard trust game, in order to study the effect of corruption on trust and …

How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust … country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings … from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS trust question captures expectations about others' trustworthiness …

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the … direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may increase efficiency and lead to more … equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality to trust is ambiguous. Using a structural equations model estimated on a …

Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however … correlate with social trust. We show that this relationship is causal. We begin by documenting a positive correlation between … quality of institutions, measured by embezzlement, and social trust using survey data. We then take the investigation to the …

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

This article presents a new argument that links generalized social trust and collective action in situations with a … large number of actors, who do not have specific information on each other. Generalized social trust enhances large … individual level data. While the relationship between generalized social trust and large-N collective action is often …