Religious Leaders’ Compliance with State Authority
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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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.
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STATE CAPACITY, STATE AUTHORITY, RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS, iMAMS, RCT, PAKISTAN, PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS, SDG 16, GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, SDG 3