Is Tax Compliance a Social Norm? A Field Experiment
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Keywords
Tax evasion; field experiments; social norms; social pressure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
- K34 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Tax Law
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2013-07-15 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-IUE-2013-07-15 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2013-07-15 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2013-07-15 (Public Finance)
- NEP-SOC-2013-07-15 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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