Building Support for Taxation in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Mexico

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo A. Flores-Maccas
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Experimental Evidence

Coethnicity and Corruption: Field Experimental Evidence from Public Officials in Malawi

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Brigitte Seim ◽  
Amanda Lea Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Government Officials

AbstractCorruption is widespread in many developing countries, though public officials’ discretion in the solicitation of bribes may expose some citizens to more corruption than others. We derive expectations about how shared ethnicity between government officials and citizens should influence the likelihood of bribe solicitation. We evaluate these expectations through a field experiment in which Malawian confederates seek electricity connections from real government offices – an interaction that is often accompanied by bribe solicitation. Our field experiment exogenously varied coethnicity between the official and the confederate. We find that coethnicity increases the likelihood of expediting an electricity connection, both with and without a bribe, which we interpret as evidence of parochial corruption.

scholarly journals Casting a Wider Tax Net: Experimental Evidence from Costa Rica

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Brockmeyer ◽  
Spencer Smith ◽  
Marco Hernandez ◽  
Stewart Kettle
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Randomized Experiment ◽  
Intermediate Form ◽  
Tax Enforcement ◽  
Important Intermediate ◽  
Payment Rate ◽  
Tax Filing

The majority of firms in developing countries are informal, yet even among registered firms, tax filing rates are low. We argue that non-filing of taxes among registered firms constitutes an important intermediate form of informality, which can be tackled cost-effectively. Using a randomized experiment in Costa Rica, we show that credible enforcement emails increased the tax payment rate (amount) by 3.4  p.p. (US$15) among previously non-filing firms. Emails that highlight third-party reports of a firm’s transactions further increased compliance. The effect persisted over two years, and treated firms became more likely to report transactions with other firms, facilitating future tax enforcement. (JEL H25, H26, K34, O17)

Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Richard Peck ◽  
Patryk Perkowski ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Shammi Quddus
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Self Employment

scholarly journals Migrant Remittances

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Yang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
International Development ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Small Individual ◽  
Transaction Fees ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
National Governments

This article is about the economics of migrant remittances sent to developing countries. I review the overall magnitude of remittances and what current research reveals about the motivations for migrant remittances and what effects they have. I discuss field experimental evidence on migrant desires for control over the uses of their remittances. I highlight some key distinctive characteristics of remittances—such as their high frequency and relatively small individual magnitudes—as well as recent experimental evidence on the effect of reductions in remittance transaction fees, and outline a research agenda on the microeconomics of remittance decision making. Finally, I discuss what the future holds for remittances, considering aggregate trends but also approaches likely to be taken by international development agencies, national governments, the private sector, and academic economists.

scholarly journals Priming human-computer interactions: Experimental evidence from economic development mobile surveys

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kweku A. Opoku-Agyemang
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Human Computer Interactions ◽  
Individual Determination ◽  
Computer Interaction

This paper investigates how citizens from developing countries vocalize controversial topics,combining behavioral economics with human-computer interaction. I examine a priming effort tounderstand how people decide to discuss controversial local subjects, using the human-computerinteraction of people with their mobile phones to quantify how attracted people feel to alternativelocal political economy topics when randomly asked what they think about international aid.The treatment significantly impacted the choice to discuss sanitation, health, poverty, democracy,individual determination, pro-poor support, and happiness. However, the intervention does notaffect subjectively ranked preferences. Human-computer interaction approaches may help policymakers understand experimental outcomes.

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