Does Public Investment Contribute to Increasing Institutional and Interpersonal Trust?: Place-Based Policies for Sports and Cultural Activities in Cali, Colombia

Lina María Martínez and Juan Tomás Sayago

No 11894, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and where policies are applied. We set up a difference-in-difference model to estimate the impact of the policies on the indexes that measure trust. We nd that the organized sport policy improves institutional trust by about 4%. Our results are significant for soccer and basketball and not significant for futsal and other activities. The evidence does not support an effect of nightlights on trust.

Keywords: Trust; Place-based policies; Social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 H41 L38 O20 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-soc, nep-spo and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.18235/0003827

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