Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities

Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities

This paper argues that welfare programs are linked with the destruction of social capital, as measured by interpersonal trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust. This result is robust to the inclusion of individual risk measures and a broad array of controls. The findings also support the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs.

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Main Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: Vanessa Ríos
Format: Working Papers biblioteca
Language:English
Published: Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:Social Development, D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles, O10 - Economic Development: General, O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, WP-668,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010904
https://publications.iadb.org/en/do-welfare-programs-damage-interpersonal-trust-experimental-evidence-representative-samples-four
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spelling dig-bid-node-100752024-05-30T20:25:17ZDo Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities 2009-01-22T00:00:00+0000 http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010904 https://publications.iadb.org/en/do-welfare-programs-damage-interpersonal-trust-experimental-evidence-representative-samples-four Inter-American Development Bank Social Development D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles O10 - Economic Development: General O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development WP-668 This paper argues that welfare programs are linked with the destruction of social capital, as measured by interpersonal trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust. This result is robust to the inclusion of individual risk measures and a broad array of controls. The findings also support the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs. Inter-American Development Bank Vanessa Ríos Alberto E. Chong Hugo R. Ñopo Working Papers application/pdf IDB Publications The Caribbean Central America South America en
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O10 - Economic Development: General
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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Inter-American Development Bank
Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
description This paper argues that welfare programs are linked with the destruction of social capital, as measured by interpersonal trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust. This result is robust to the inclusion of individual risk measures and a broad array of controls. The findings also support the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs.
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title Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
title_short Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
title_full Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
title_fullStr Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
title_full_unstemmed Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust?: Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
title_sort do welfare programs damage interpersonal trust?: experimental evidence from representative samples for four latin american cities
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