Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality: A worldwide perspective

Domenico Moramarco and Flaviana Palmisano

No wp-2023-12, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional trust. Drawing on individual data from 82 countries around the world over the 1981-2021 period, it sheds light on the potential limitations of exploring the impact of the income distribution's shape on trust, using—as is traditional in the literature—a single inequality indicator. Results suggest that total income inequality and institutional trust are positively associated but this aggregated result hides some troubling countervailing effects.

Keywords: Trust; Institutions; Inequality; Income inequality; Political attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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