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A playground for tax compliance? : testing fiscal exchange in an RCT in Argentina

Eguino, Huáscar; Schächtele, Simeon - 2020

tax compliance in a setting (i.e., crisis-ridden Argentina) where one might least expect such an intervention to succeed …”) has been limited. This paper reports evidence from a randomized controlled trial with over 20,000 taxpayers in Argentina … significantly more payments than without. The unfavorable economic crisis context in Argentina makes the impacts remarkable. We …

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Nudging taxpayer registration? : field experimental evidence on backfiring incentives

Eguino, Huáscar; Roman, Soraya; Schächtele, Simeon - 2020

Governments in Latin America raise little revenue from property taxation, despite arguments for its efficiency and equity. Adequate registry information would support consistent collection, but registries are costly to establish and maintain. Compared to tax collection, field experimental...

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Money does it better! : economic incentives, nudging interventions and reusable shopping bags : evidence from a natural field experiment

Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca - 2021

provision of reusable bags. We manipulate the type of the intervention, i.e., either a financial bonus or a nudge, and the … the bonus and the nudge considerably reduce the demand for single-use plastic bags. Free reusable bags are effective when … combined with the bonus, albeit not effective when combined with the nudge. Finally, the bonus is more powerful than the nudge …

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The $100 Million Nudge : Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed Using a Natural Field Experiment

Holz, Justin - 2020

, we find that firms are more impacted than the self-employed, and that firm size is critically linked to nudge …

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Nudging for prompt tax penalty payment : evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia

Yogama, Eko Arief; Gray, Daniel J.; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2023

We conducted a randomised controlled trial in Indonesia to evaluate the effect of three intervention letters on tax penalty compliance behaviour. Over 10,000 individual taxpayers are randomly assigned to receive either a deterrence, information, or simplification letter, or no letter. Our...

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...

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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022

We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....

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Transporting behavioral insights to low-income households : a field experiment on energy efficiency investments

Chlond, Bettina; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2024

Many industrialized countries have recognized the need to mitigate energy cost increases faced by low-income households by fostering the adoption of energy-efficient technologies. How to meet this need is an open question, but “behavioral insights” are likely components of future policy...

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Nudging when the descriptive norm is low : evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment

Carattini, Stefano; Blasch, Julia - 2020

Nudges and behavioral interventions have become a popular tool to stimulate prosocial behavior. Little is known, however, on how to design effective social interventions in contexts in which the descriptive norm is low, i.e. when a desirable behavior is only practiced by a minority within the...

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