Is Generalized Trust Stable over Time?

Arbeitspapier

Using a unique international database on generalized trust - constructed from more than 1,000 individual national surveys containing more than 1 million individual observations - covering 142 countries across the world for the 41-year time period from 1980 to 2020, this paper finds strong evidence that generalized trust at the country level is not stable over time. In fact, the paper finds a pronounced intertemporal variation of generalized trust over time in many countries across the globe. The paper's findings lend greater credibility to the theory of "experiential" trust over that of "cultural" trust, which leads the author to argue for using standard and dynamic panel estimation approaches in future analyses of generalized trust outcomes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Hamburg Discussion Papers in International Economics ; No. 15

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence ; Economywide Country Studies: General ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: Generalized Trust ; Intertemporal Variation ; Stability ; Panel Data ; Causality

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Roth, Felix
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Hamburg, Department of Economics, Senior Lecturer in International Economics
• (wo): Hamburg
• (wann): 2024

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/280903
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ