Khan, Adnan, Nasim, Sanval, Shaukat, Mahvish and Stegmann, Andreas (2021) Building trust in the state with information: evidence from urban Punjab. Journal of Public Economics, 202. ISSN 0047-2727
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Can communication designed to increase support for government policy and shift perceptions of state capacity redress deep-rooted mistrust in state institutions? This paper finds providing information on past state effectiveness, highlighting citizens’ cooperation in enabling past effectiveness or appealing to religious authorities’ support for government policy have limited impact on support for policy, perceptions of state capacity and trust in the state in Pakistan. This holds true on average and across important dimensions of heterogeneity after comparing treatment effects to those induced by an experimenter demand treatment. This paper highlights the limits of using information to build trust in state institutions, and the importance of measuring experimenter demand.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: We would like to thank Sam Bazzi, Eli Berman, Migara De Silva, Ben Marx, Chris Roth, Jacob Shapiro and Kate Vyborny for valuable suggestions. We would also like to thank seminar participants in the ESOC Lab at Princeton, the LUMS and the University of Warwick for comments. We would like to thank Ahmad Mustafa, Jazib Parvez, Sardar Abdullah Mahmood, Omer Qasim, Haaris Mahmood and CERP Survey Unit for outstanding research assistance in Lahore, and Anna Lane, Iana Gerina and Youpeng Zhang for excellent support in Bonn. We would also like to thank Asim Khwaja and Ben Olken for generously sharing data. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the briq Institute and the World Bank Development Research Group. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier B.V. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. |
| Divisions: | School of Public Policy ?? SCPP ?? |
| Date Deposited: | 03 May 2024 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 03:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122890 |
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