| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24611 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24611 |
| Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan | |
| Daron Acemoglu; Ali Cheema; Asim I. Khwaja; James A. Robinson | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-05-21 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Lack of trust in state institutions, often due to poor service provision, is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. If this increases reliance on non-state actors for crucial services, the resulting self-reinforcing cycle can further weaken the state. This paper examines whether such a cycle can be disrupted. We focus on dispute resolution in rural Punjab, Pakistan. We find that providing information about reduced delays in state courts leads to citizens reporting higher willingness to use state courts and to greater fund allocations to the state in two lab-in-the-field games designed to measure trust in state and non-state actors in a high-stakes setting. More interestingly, we find indirect effects on non-state actors. After receiving state positive information, respondents report lower likelihood of using non-state institutions and reduce funds allocated to them in field games. Furthermore, we find similar direct and indirect effects on a battery of questions concerning people’s beliefs about these actors, including a decreased allegiance to the non-state actor. We rationalize these results with a model of motivated reasoning whereby reduced usage of non-state institutions makes people less likely to hold positive views about them. These results indicate that, despite substantial distrust of the state in Pakistan, credible new information can change beliefs and behavior. The feedback loop between state ineffectiveness and the legitimacy of non-state actors may be reversible. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Economics of Information ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24611 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582285 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daron Acemoglu,Ali Cheema,Asim I. Khwaja,et al. Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan. 2018. |
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