Income inequality and social trust

IF 1.8 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economics Letters Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112675

Andrea Albertazzi , Patrick Lown , Friederike Mengel

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Abstract

We study how economic inequality affects social trust. We test this relationship both using correlational evidence from a large social survey of British youth as well as novel causal evidence from a series of online experiments. We find causal evidence that higher inequality has a negative impact on social trust. By contrast, a high relative position leads to higher social trust in both samples. In times where inequality is on the rise these findings are cause for concern.

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收入不平等与社会信任

我们研究经济不平等如何影响社会信任。我们通过对英国青年进行的一项大型社会调查得出的相关证据以及一系列在线实验得出的新的因果证据来检验这种关系。我们发现因果证据表明，更高的不平等对社会信任有负面影响。相反，在两个样本中，较高的相对地位导致较高的社会信任。在不平等加剧的时代，这些发现令人担忧。

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来源期刊

Economics Letters ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

5.00%

发文量

348

审稿时长

30 days

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