Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122076 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 737
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is no longer a significant determinant of trust once racial income inequality is accounted for. I also show that racial income inequality has a more detrimental effect in more racially fragmented communities and that trust falls more in minority groups when racial income inequality increases. The results hold under both least squares and instrumental variable estimation.
Subjects: 
Trust
Racial income inequality
U.S.
JEL: 
D31
Z10
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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