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| Title: | | Do welfare programs damage interpersonal trust? Experimental evidence from representative samples for four Latin American cities  |
| Authors: | | Chong, Alberto Ñopo, Hugo Rios, Vanessa |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department 668 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | Experiments Surveys Social Programs Trust Stigma Latin America |
| JEL: | | D01 O12 O10 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Research Department Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank
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