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JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Volume 128, Issue 8, Pages 3090-3147Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/707765
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- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab's Governance Initiative
- Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- South Asia Institute at Harvard University
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This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from nonstate actors. We find that (truthful) information about reduced delays in state courts in rural Pakistan leads to citizens reporting higher likelihood of using them and to greater allocations to the state in high-stakes lab games. We also find negative indirect effects on nonstate actors and show that these changes are a response to improved beliefs about state actors, which make individuals interact less with nonstate actors and, we argue, induce them to downgrade their beliefs about these actors.
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