The effect of social conformity on interpersonal trust

Anna E. Shaleva

Review of Behavioral Economics, 2019, vol. 6, issue 4, 387–400

Abstract: Social conformity pervades in societies by affecting a wide variety of attitudes and opinions. In this paper, I study whether social conformity affects interpersonal trust attitudes. The empirical approach isolates a variable for common ethnic trust which is a characteristic of the ethnic social community. Under possible social pressure, individual trust attitudes are shaped by the community trust. In other words, social conformity accounts for a significant change in individual’s probability of trust. This effect is causal as evidenced by an IV estimation.

JEL-codes: H8 P50 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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