https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/timothy-besley/Timothy BesleyHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/growth-experiences-and-trust-in-government/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/growth-experiences-and-trust-in-government/<p>This paper investigates whether individuals who have experienced stronger GDP growth over their lifetimes are more likely to trust their national government. The authors — Besley, Dann, and Dray — assemble a newly harmonized global dataset comprising approximately 3.3 million respondents across 166 countries since 1990, drawn from 11 major opinion surveys (Afrobarometer, Americasbarometer, Arabarometer, Asiabarometer, European Social Survey, Gallup World Poll, Integrated Values Survey, Latinobarometer, Life in Transition Survey, South Asia Barometer, and World Justice Project). They supplement this with longer-run U.S. evidence from the American National Election Studies (ANES) going back to 1958, covering respondents born as early as the 1880s, and longitudinal Swiss evidence from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) which allows individual fixed-effects estimation.</p>