信任少数人：非洲的自然灾害和信任危机

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2024.102288

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人在易受影响的时期（18-25 岁）心理可塑性最强，会形成在社会中发挥作用所必需的长期态度和行为，例如信任。在本文中，我们通过将 1,000 多起灾难事件的数据与来自 36 个非洲国家的 88,670 名个人的数据进行比对，探讨了在易受影响的年龄段接触自然灾害会如何影响信任的形成。我们利用在易受影响年龄段内遭遇灾害的频率，表明遭遇灾害与普遍信任之间存在显著的负相关关系。此外，我们还表明，在易受影响时期经历的灾难会对人际信任和机构信任的其他方面产生影响。我们的研究结果在一系列测试中都很稳健，为自然灾害对个人和社会的持久影响提供了更多证据。

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Trust a few: Natural disasters and the disruption of trust in Africa

Individuals are at their most mental plasticity in their impressionable years (ages 18–25 years) forming long-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural disasters within the impressionable years may affect the formation of trust by matching data from over 1,000 disaster occurrences with data from 88,670 individuals across 36 African nations. Exploiting the frequency of disaster exposure across the impressionable years, we show that disaster exposure has a negative and significant association with generalized trust. Additionally, we show that disasters experienced during the impressionable years have an impact on other dimensions of interpersonal and institutional trust. Our findings are robust to a battery of tests and add to the evidence base on the lasting impacts of natural disasters on individuals and societies.

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ECONOMICS-

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2.60

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12.50%

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113

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83 days

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