IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/avg/wpaper/en11845.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Inequality in Public Good Provision and Attitude Towards Taxation: Sub-national Evidence from Africa

Author

Listed:
  • Lisa CHAUVET
  • Siyavash ESLAMI
  • Marin FERRY
  • Laure PASQUIER-DOUMER

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between inequality in public good provision and attitude towards taxation in the context of sub-Saharan African countries. Individuals’ attitude towards taxation is measured using the sixth round of the Afrobarometer geo-coded data, and inequality is measured with a Gini index computed using data on night light intensity around individuals. Our identification strategy relies on an IV estimation where the instrument is a Gini index computed on predicted pixels’ light intensity based on the initial distance of each pixel from its closest enlightened pixel. Results suggest that inequality is positively associated with more pro-tax attitude. However, this association depends on the size of the area over which Gini indexes are computed: inequality in the immediate surrounding of individuals (in 20 up to 50km buffer areas) has a positive effect on their attitude towards taxation that we interpret as a higher demand for redistribution in more unequal context. In line with this interpretation, we also find that when facing high inequality, individuals in the bottom of wealth distribution or far away from economic centers have a more favorable attitude towards taxation.

Suggested Citation

  • Lisa CHAUVET & Siyavash ESLAMI & Marin FERRY & Laure PASQUIER-DOUMER, 2020. "Inequality in Public Good Provision and Attitude Towards Taxation: Sub-national Evidence from Africa," Working Paper f2d60d99-90d0-4d77-b8f4-e, Agence française de développement.
    • Handle: RePEc:avg:wpaper:en11845
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.afd.fr/sites/afd/files/2020-11-07-37-08/Public%20good%20provision_tax%20compliance.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Afrique;

    JEL classification:

    • Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:avg:wpaper:en11845. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AFD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/afdgvfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.