New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being
Published By: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH on eSS | Published Date: July , 2016This paper reports existing and fresh evidence on some of the direct and indirect linkages between trust and subjective well-being. This paper first uses data from three large international surveys – the Gallup World Poll, the World Values Survey and the European Social Survey – to estimate income-equivalent values for social trust, with a likely lower bound equivalent to a doubling of household income. [Working Paper 22450]
Author(s): John Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shun Wang | Posted on: Jul 26, 2016 | Views()