Taxes and Benefits: Two Options to Cheat on the State
type="main" xml:id="obes12024-abs-0001"> <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>In this article we study the social norms to abstain from cheating on the state via benefit fraud and tax evasion. We interpret these norms (called benefit morale and tax morale) as moral goods, and derive testable hypotheses on whether their demand is determined by prices. Employing a large survey data set from OECD-member countries we provide robust evidence that the demand responds to price proxy variables as predicted by theory. The main general conclusion of this article is that social norms (which are widely accepted as determinants of individual economic behaviour) are themselves influenced by economic factors.
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2014
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Authors: | Halla, Martin ; Schneider, Friedrich G. |
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. - Department of Economics, ISSN 0305-9049. - Vol. 76.2014, 3, p. 411-431
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Department of Economics |
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