Deng, Huang & Yu - Cultural inclusion and social trust
Deng, X., Huang, N & Yu, M. (2022) Cultural inclusion and social trust: Evidence from China. Asian Journal of Social Science, 50(1): 16-26.
This paper investigates the relationship between a region's cultural inclusion and its residents’ social trust. Based on the individual-level survey data from China, the authors find a positive correlation between cultural inclusion and average levels of social trust at the city level. When instrumenting culture inclusion using government spending on the construction of culture and fixed assets, a consistent positive correlation between cultural inclusion and social trust is found. The authors also find that higher levels of cultural inclusion are positively correlated with the happiness and optimistic social attitudes of residents and are negatively correlated with the probability of misperception and conflicts.
Deng, Huang & Yu “Cultural inclusion and social trust: Evidence from China”