Learning and Work hybride seminars, herfst/winter 2026

Wanneer: dinsdag 6 oktober 2026
Tijd: 12.00u - 13.00u 
Waar: TS53 - A1.23

Spreker: Anna Bindler - DIW Berlin 

Titel: Revealed Trust in Police (with Randi Hjalmarsson & Kyra Hanemaaijer)

Abstract: Trust is a key ingredient for effective institutions but is inherently difficult to observe. We conceptually and empirically show that trust can be revealed through an individual’s willingness to entrust institutions with sensitive personal information. Using more than three million police stops in England and Wales, we operationalize this idea by measuring whether subjects decline to self-report ethnicity to officers. Ethnicity disclosure strongly tracks independent survey measures of trust in police across time, geography, demographic groups, and dimensions of trust. The high-frequency and local variation in our new measure of trust in police allows us to study how it responds to information shocks about officer misconduct. We find that the 2021 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard by an off-duty London Metropolitan police officer immediately reduced ethnicity disclosure (by 2.4%) in London, with little evidence of large spillovers elsewhere. There is an even larger decline following news of severe misconduct by another officer from the same unit, while subsequent investigations and reports had little effect.

Geplande seminars:

20-10-2026 Mengwei - UB
03-11-2026 Guillem Foucault - TSE
17-11-2026 n.t.b.
01-12-2026 Albrecht Glitz - Barcelona
15-12-2026 Sandra McNally - University of Surrey

Voorgaande seminars:

22-09-2026 Harald Pfeifer - BIBB, ROA - GEANNULEERD
08-09-2026 Marc Witte (VU) - Wage Information and Applicant Selection
25-08-2026  Bohdana Kurylo, ROA - Subject-Specific Rank and the Educational Tracking of Migrant Students