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. 2021 Feb 8;30(4):840–857. doi: 10.1002/hec.4218

TABLE 1.

Estimating inherited trust: Summary statistics

Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
Pre‐1918
Trust 0.48 0.50 0 1
Income class 10.61 2.38 1 12
Age 51.40 16.92 18 89
Education 13.41 2.90 0 20
Male 0.46 0.50 0 1
Protestant 0.66 0.47 0 1
Catholic 0.21 0.41 0 1
Employed 0.60 0.49 0 1
Unemployed 0.02 0.15 0 1
Immigrant grandparents 0.55 1.14 0 4
Second‐generation 0.03 0.16 0 1
Third‐generation 0.12 0.32 0 1
Fourth‐generation 0.86 0.35 0 1
Post‐1918
Trust 0.39 0.49 0 1
Income class 10.97 2.18 1 12
Age 37.42 13.99 18 89
Education 13.94 2.57 0 20
Male 0.48 0.50 0 1
Protestant 0.38 0.49 0 1
Catholic 0.35 0.48 0 1
Employed 0.73 0.45 0 1
Unemployed 0.04 0.19 0 1
Immigrant grandparents 1.83 1.64 0 4
Second‐generation 0.18 0.38 0 1
Third‐generation 0.40 0.49 0 1
Fourth‐generation 0.42 0.49 0 1

Note: The table displays the summary statistics for the variables used in the estimation of inherited trust.