Sciences Po|Centre Pour La Recherche Economique et ses Applications|École Polytechnique|Center for Research in Economics and Statistics
paper develops new method uncover causal effect trust economic growth focusing inherited component trust time variation show inherited trust descendants us immigrants significantly influenced country origin timing arrival forebears thus use inherited trust descendants us immigrants timevarying measure inherited trust country origin strategy allows identify sizeable causal impact inherited trust worldwide growth twentieth century controlling country fixed effects jel n11 n12 n31 n32 o47 z13