Does social trust determine the size of the welfare state? Evidence using historical identification

By Christian Bjørnskov, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen. 2013

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Demography

1. Andreas Bergh
2. Christian Bjørnskov
3. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
4. Niclas Berggren
5. P. T. Dinesen
6. J. Sørensen

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Andreas Bergh
2. Christian Bjørnskov
3. Niklas Potrafke
4. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
5. N. J. Foss
6. J. Sørensen

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Andreas Bergh
2. Christian Bjørnskov
3. Niklas Potrafke
4. Niclas Berggren
5. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
6. Axel Dreher
7. Benny Geys
8. Gianmarco Daniele

Citations in the corpus

• Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, background): “Amechanism supporting a causal link from trust to equality is suggested by findings in Bergh and Bjørnskov (2011) and Bjørnskov and Svendsen (2013), which show that historical trust levels explain current welfare state size.”