Table 4.

Association between village head’s (VH) social/economic activities and trust towards institutions (health workers (HW) and the government (Gvt))

	Trust in HW (1)	Trust in HW (2)	Trust in HW (3)	Gvt truthful (4)	Gvt truthful (5)	Gvt truthful (6)
VH socially active	0.333***		0.327***	0.263***		0.249***
	(0.089)		(0.090)	(0.078)		(0.080)
VH economically active		0.080	0.030		0.100	0.065
		(0.074)	(0.076)		(0.064)	(0.065)
Observations	2130	2130	2130	2129	2129	2129

Note: Estimates are derived from ordered probit regressions with robust standard errors reported in parentheses ($\ast$ p < 0.1, $\ast \ast$ p < 0.05, $\ast \ast \ast$ p < 0.01). All regressions control for sex, age (dichotomous variables for age 19–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64, 65–90) and education (dichotomous variables for “never attended school”, “finished standard” and “finished form and above”), and include region and time (in days) fixed-effects. We define a VH as being “socially active” if he has instructed respondents to cancel village meetings, keep distance from other people while fetching water, stop public works or stopping recreational activities, such as soccer on the playground. We define a VH as being “economically active” if he has instructed respondents to creating a village fund for emergency purposes or redistribute resources (food, money, medical supplies) to the most vulnerable members of the village community. “HW” stands for health care workers. Outcome variables take three possible values: 0 (very untruthful or somewhat untruthful/strongly distrust or somewhat distrust), 1 (neither truthful nor untruthful/neither trust nor distrust) and 2 (very truthful or somewhat truthful/strongly trust or somewhat trust).