Socializing Informal Workers through Technology? Rapid Survey Evidence on Trust, Collective Action, and Compliance in Indonesia during the COVID-19 Crisis

• In Event: Social Institutions, Local Governance, and Service Delivery

Brief Overview

This paper studies “digitized” and traditional informal workers in Indonesia using survey experiments, and shows that social associations, both online and community-based, determine informal workers' compliance with costly Covid-19 policies.

Author

• Ying Gao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology