Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 7-8, pp. 635-643
Research on social capital routinely relies on survey measures of trust which can be collected in large and … about others' cooperation. Our analysis suggests that the standard trust question used in the World Values Survey is a proxy … recently proposed alternative to the standard trust question, seems to operate through beliefs rather than preferences. …