TY - JOUR
T1 - Voice and Punishment: A Global Survey Experiment on Tax Morale
AU - Sjoberg, Fredrik Matias
AU - Mellon, Jonathan
AU - Peixoto, Tiago Carneiro
AU - Hemker, Johannes Zacharias
AU - Tsai, Lily Lee
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - An online survey experiment spanning 50 countries finds sizable improvements in tax morale when (a) the salience of anti-corruption efforts is increased and (b) citizens are allowed to voice their expenditure preferences to the government. These results hold very broadly across a uniquely large and diverse sample of respondents from all continents. The findings are consistent with theories emphasizing the role of democratic accountability, as well as of perceptions of legitimacy and
AB - An online survey experiment spanning 50 countries finds sizable improvements in tax morale when (a) the salience of anti-corruption efforts is increased and (b) citizens are allowed to voice their expenditure preferences to the government. These results hold very broadly across a uniquely large and diverse sample of respondents from all continents. The findings are consistent with theories emphasizing the role of democratic accountability, as well as of perceptions of legitimacy and
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/voice-punishment-global-survey-experiment-tax-morale
M3 - Article
VL - 8855
SP - 1
EP - 29
JO - Policy Research Working Paper
JF - Policy Research Working Paper
IS - May
ER -
