A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants

Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso, Philip Keefer and Carlos Scartascini

Chapter 2 in Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2022, pp 27-50 from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Advances in the social sciences allow us to measure trust and show that history, culture, families, personal experiences, and individual cognition all shape trust. Still, it is within the grasp of governments to increase trust by changing citizen incentives to be trustworthy: removing power asymmetries that grant impunity to the untrustworthy and removing information asymmetries that allow them to obscure their untrustworthy behavior.

Keywords: Trust; Political Trust; Regulation; Labor Force; Public Policy; Economy; Civil Servants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 D23 D72 D73 D82 D91 H41 H83 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
ISBN: 978-1-59782-496-5
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