@techreport{9118d3ddc79a42b5a7ed2465ab35a3fc,
title = "The chips are down: The influence of family on children's trust formation",
abstract = "Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognised to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy which hinges on a panel of parents and their children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show",
keywords = "Economic Development,Trust, Intergenerational transmission, Siblings correlations, Cultural transmission",
author = "Corrado Giulietti and Enrico Rettore and Sara Tonini",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "19",
language = "English",
series = "UNU-MERIT Working Papers",
publisher = "UNU-MERIT",
number = "041",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "UNU-MERIT",
}