In Aid We Trust: Hearts and Minds and the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu
• 署名单位: Claremont Colleges; Pomona College; The World Bank
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00638
• 发表日期: 2017-07
• 页码: 371-386
• 关键词: risk; newspapers; ECONOMICS; BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE; islam

摘要

In 2005 an earthquake in northern Pakistan led to a significant inflow of international relief groups. Four years later, trust in Europeans and Americans was markedly higher among those exposed to the earthquake and the relief that followed. These differences reflect the greater provision of foreign aid and foreigner presence in affected villages rather than preexisting population differences or a general impact of disasters on trust. We thus demonstrate large-scale, durable attitudinal change in a representative Muslim population. Trust in Westerners among Muslims is malleable and not a deeply rooted function of preferences or global (as opposed to local) policy and actions.