Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0

Author-Name: Arlette Beltrán
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad del Pacifico, Peru
Author-Workplace-Email: beltran_acl@up.edu.pe

Author-Name: Alberto Chong
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Georgia State University, USA
Author-Workplace-Email: achong6@gsu.edu

Author-Name: Mariano Montoya
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad del Pacifico, Peru

Title: Neighborhoods, Social Class, and Reciprocity: Evidence Using Representative Artefactual Data from Latin America

Abstract: We study if urban class segregation destroys social capital in Latin America using experimental data that are representative for six Latin American cities. In particular, we focus on whether belonging to upper class neighborhoods impacts reciprocity in a standard trust game. While our overall results confirm a negative association between these two variables, we also find that trusting behavior can help counteract the negative impact of class.

Length: 8 pages 

Creation-Date: 2019-08

File-URL: https://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2019/08/paper1912.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf

Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper1912