Gallego Dobón, Aina2021-02-242021-02-242016Gallego A. Inequality and the erosion of trust among the poor: experimental evidence. Socio-Econ Rev. 2016 Jul;14(3):443–60. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mww0101475-1461http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46585This article uses a subtle experimental treatment to examine how perceptions of income inequality affect generalized trust and the willingness to cooperate with others. It hypothesizes that inequality reduces prosocial attitudes mostly among low-income citizens, who are very sensitive to changes in their relative status. The results of the survey experiment conducted in the Netherlands suggest that perceiving the income distribution as more unequal has particularly detrimental effects on the prosocial attitudes of the poor. A disproportionate erosion of trust among the poor due to increases in income inequality may be an important mechanism hindering mobilization in favor of redistribution.application/pdfeng© Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Socio-Economic Review following peer review. The version of record "Gallego A. Inequality and the erosion of trust among the poor: experimental evidence. Socio-Econ Rev. 2016 Jul;14(3):443–60" is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mww010info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ser/mww010TrustInequalitySocial capitalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess