This paper examines the parallelism which exists between demand behavior determined from the sale of a private good in an actu al "real world" field setting and in a laboratory auction setting. The demand behavior observed in the two settings is significantly the same leading to the...

This paper argues that there is a social norm of tax compliance that affects individual reporting decisions and that can be affected by voting on different aspects of the fiscal system. Experimental results are consistent with a central role for social norms. Individual compliance after a vote...