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New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being

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  • John Helliwell

  • Haifang Huang

  • Shun Wang

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This 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]

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  • John Helliwell & Haifang Huang & Shun Wang, 2016. "New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being," Working Papers id:11131, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11131
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    7. Jesse Bricker & Geng Li, 2017. "Credit Scores, Social Capital, and Stock Market Participation," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2017-008, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    8. Hugo Mell & Lou Safra & Perrine Demange & Yann Algan & Nicolas Baumard & Coralie Chevallier, 2020. "Early life adversity is associated with diminished social trust in adults," Sciences Po publications info:hdl:2441/1n437se8a69, Sciences Po.
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    10. Slater, Giulia, 2024. "The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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