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Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance

Cruces, Guillermo; Tortarolo, Dario; Vazquez-Bare, Gonzalo - 2025

This paper develops a framework to analyze partial population experiments, a generalization of the cluster experimental design where clusters are assigned to different treatment intensities. The framework allows for heterogeneity in cluster sizes and outcome distributions. The paper studies the...

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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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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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Nudging for tax compliance: A meta-analysis

Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 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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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...

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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...

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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis

Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2024 - This version: July, 2024

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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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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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