Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison

By Christian Bjørnskov. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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The productivity of trust (2015, background): “While recent studies of the determinants of trust suggest that trust is not associated with ethnic diversity (Anderson and Paskeviciute, 2006; Bjørnskov, 2007), we nonetheless make sure that the association between trust and TFP is not driven by a simple accounting issue by controlling for the size…”
Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “Growing evidence suggest that trust attitudes, like other cultural traits, can persist for surprisingly long periods of time at national and sub-national levels (Bjørnskov, 2007), with regional differences shaped by past political and social developments (Tabellini, 2010).”
Trust and Wellbeing (2010, neutral): “Algan and Cahuc (2010) and Bjørnskov (2006) show that national-level social trust is remarkably stable over time.”
What Have We Learned About Generalized Trust, If Anything? (2008, background): “…to correlate acceptably well across countries with a number of indicators of levels of trustworthiness, such as the proportion of wallets returned intact in wallet-dropping experiments (Bjørnskov 2007), or the prevalence of corruption (Uslaner 2002) and of violent crime (Lederman et al. 2002).”
Risk, Cooperation and the Economic origins of social Trust: an empirical Investigation (2009, neutral): “At the national and sub-national levels, for example, trust scores are remarkably stable over several decades (Bjørnskov, 2007). At the individual level, this persistence is generally attributed to intergenerational transmission operating through genetics, imitation, or deliberate inculcation by par”
The bigger the better? Evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world (2007, positive): “This result can be interpreted as all countries lying on the downward sloping part of an inverted u-function. data (Uslaner, 2002; Bjørnskov, 2005b).”
Where You Come From or Where You Live? Examining the Cultural and Institutional Explanation of Generalized Trust Using Migration as a Natural Experiment (2013, background): “Empirically the cultural perspective has found considerable support in studies showing a high degree of stability in trust over time across nations (Bjørnskov, 2006) as well as over the life course of individuals (Claibourn and Martin, 2000).”
Trust in banks (2017, methodology): “Bjornskov (2007) builds on Max Weber’s insight that general trust should be higher in non-hierarchical religions that promote a sense of individualized responsibility.”
Inequality and Trust: New Evidence from Panel Data (2016, neutral): “Bergh and Bjørnskov (2011) show that countries with higher trust levels are more prone to have larger welfare states so reducing inequality; alternatively one may argue that higher trust might lead to better institutions and better-performing markets and these, in turn, might favour a more equitable”