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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 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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Commitment to pay taxes : a field experiment on the importance of promise

Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Torgler, Benno; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2016

The ability of a tax authority to successfully collect taxes depends critically on both its relationship with the taxpayers and how strongly these taxpayers are committed to contributing to the common good. We present evidence on a new non-intrusive approach aimed at fostering the commitment to...

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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021

notice requiring civil servants in Buenos Aires to comply with citizens requests under Argentina's freedom of information act …

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Nudging the trendsetters : increasing second-dose HPV vaccination in Bogota, Colombia

Martínez, Déborah; Díaz, Lina; Maldonado Zambrano, … - 2023

. These findings underscore the importance of tailoring nudge strategies to the unique characteristics and preferences of the …

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