Trust via disasters: the case of Chile's 2010 earthquake

dc.contributor.author	Dussaillant, Francisca
dc.contributor.author	Guzmán Astete, Eugenio
dc.date.accessioned	2016-01-25T07:38:20Z
dc.date.available	2016-01-25T07:38:20Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	Chile has a long-standing history of natural disasters and, in particular, earthquakes. The latest big earthquake hit Chile on 27 February 2010 with a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale. As an event that had a profound impact on significant portions of the population, the earthquake could theoretically have served to build trust by promoting new trust networks through the enhancement of distant family ties and the interaction between affected neighbours. This study offers an empirical analysis of this theory in the Chilean case. It finds that if initial social capital is very low (thus allowing for postdisaster looting and violence), then the impact of the trust-increasing effect is smaller. It also shows that the effect of the disaster was not transitory, but that it persisted and actually increased over time.
dc.identifier.citation	Disasters, october 2014, vol. 38, n° 4, p. 808–832
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11447/193
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12077
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	Chile's 2010 earthquake
dc.subject	disaster
dc.subject	economics of disasters
dc.subject	resilience
dc.subject	sociology of disasters
dc.subject	subjective well-being
dc.subject	trust
dc.title	Trust via disasters: the case of Chile's 2010 earthquake
dc.type	Artículo

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