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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587563
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496735
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2020
Tax compliance nudges are used increasingly by governments because of their perceived cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment effect estimates from 45 randomized controlled trials, and synthesize this rapidly growing literature using meta-analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263419
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Breaking the bag habit : testing interventions to reduce plastic bag demand in a developing country
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca - 2023
field experiment conducted in a big supermarket chain in Armenia, we test how a nudge (information on the environmental … disposable bags. Relative to the baseline with no intervention, both the bonus and the nudge considerably reduce the purchase of … disposable bags. The bonus scheme and the environmental nudge are equally effective when not combined with free reusable bags …
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2019
Taxpayer nudges - behavioral interventions that aim to increase tax compliance without changing the underlying economic incentives of taxpayers - are used increasingly by governments because of their potential cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129505
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2024 - This version: July, 2024
Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesize the growing literature that evaluates nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that simple reminders increase the probability of compliance by 2.7 percentage points relative to the baseline where about...
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