Public trust and corruption perception: disaster relief

Weng, Woo, Cheng, T. Ho and I. Horowitz

Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 47, issue 46, 4967-4981

Abstract: Public trust in government and nongovernment organizations is essential to the public's willingness to donate and to support those organizations. We measure public trust in disaster aid using people's perception of these organizations' effectiveness in delivering aid relief to the victims of two recent major earthquakes in China. Based on the survey data collected in 2013 from about 2100 residents in Hong Kong, we document the vulnerability of these residents' trust perceptions in aid delivery. We find that the sharp decline in trust perception is highly negatively correlated with their perception of corruption of local governments in China.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1039703

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