Racism and trust in Europe

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I study the impact of racism on trust in Europe. To operationalize trust and racism, I use individual level responses from the European Social and World Value Surveys. The results of the multivariate analysis indicate, individuals who possess a self-reported racist attitude are less likely to be trusting. To address the issue of causality, I examine second generation immigrants. When analyzing immigrants and using the level of racism of their origin country as a proxy for individual racial attitudes, I find, racism continues to predict lower levels of trust. These results provide evidence racism has a negative, significant, and causal impact on generalized trust. Additionally, the paper supports the notion that racism could have negative economic consequences via the erosion of social capital.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: The Constitutional Economics Network Working Papers ; No. 02-2021

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Racism ; Trust ; Culture

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bonick, Matthew
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Freiburg, Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory
• (where): Freiburg i. Br.
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/235598
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET