A social price to the rising cost of living? The bidirectional relationship between inflation and trust
Journal: Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
Year: 2024

This study examines whether social trust, the general belief that most people are honest and trustworthy, shapes perceptions of personal increases in cost of living and whether perceptions of increases in cost of living affect social trust. We analyze panel data from the Canadian Quality of Work and Economic Life Study (N = 2353) that was gathered between the fall of 2021 and spring of 2022, when inflation rose precipitously in Canada. Using a combination of entropy balancing and logistic regres