This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We … use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and … that measure trust. We nd that the organized sport policy improves institutional trust by about 4%. Our results are …

Previous studies have found that generalized trust positively affects innovation at the country and regional level. We … extend this literature by arguing that there are four reasons to believe that the trust-innovation relationship is … heterogeneous across geographic space. First, there is a saturation effect where regions in the lower half of the trust distribution …