Religious Leaders' Compliance with State Authority

• Tác giả: Kate Vyborny
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.92 Social groups
• Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 300872
• Chủ đề: 1. iMAMS; 2. RCT; 3. RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS; 4. STATE AUTHORITY; 5. STATE CAPACITY

Tóm tắt

A randomized controlled trial in Pakistan tests whether one-on-one engagement with community religious leaders can encourage them to instruct congregants to follow government regulations. Treated religious leaders are 25 percent more likely to comply with government requirements to tell congregants they should wear a mask to prevent COVID transmission when attending prayers. Treatment effects do not depend on the religious content of the message. Effects are driven by respondents who already understand the mechanics of COVID transmission at baseline, suggesting the treatment does not work by correcting basic knowledge about the disease, but rather through a mechanism of persuasion.