, participants presented with a quality certificate chose higher donations by around 10% and reported higher trust in the same …

This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying children of immigrants in 29 European … countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother's side, and the transmission is … significantly stronger than on the father's side. The transmission is stronger in high trust countries. Building trust in high trust …

accounts for differences in entrepreneurial activities. The findings suggest that trust measured by trust either in strangers …

In this paper, we experimentally investigate the guilt aversion hypothesis by using a trust game with pre …

This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of … endogeneity. It is independent from trust in institutions and from income inequality, and is mainly present in the sample of … developing countries. Those findings suggest that the tax compliance effect of trust dominates its role as a substitute for the …

is beneficial in reducing trustees’ willingness to betray trust. In light of this, many common knowledge institutions may …

We set up an experiment to study whether disclosure of the advisor's interests can foster truthfulness and trust. We …

Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing behavior in a trust game … sent in the trust game reveal that the amount sent is correlated with a general measure of trust. The trust and need …

This paper examines experimentally the reputation building role of disclosure in an investment/trust game. It provides … experimental evidence in support of sequential equilibrium behavior in a finitely repeated investment/trust game where information …

Trust is critical during times of institutional crisis, but intuition is ambiguous with regards to economic calamity … and levels of interpersonal trust, specifically in Latin America. First, we find that as the number of recessionary years … grows larger, the strength of interpersonal trust increases; the results are generally robust to the effects of time and …