Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid (English)

Seminal arguments in political economy hold that citizens will more readily demand accountability from governments for taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large, representative subject pools in Ghana and Uganda probe the effects of different revenue types on citizens' actions to monitor government spending. Roughly half of all subjects willingly sign petitions and donate money to scrutinize all three sources...

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de la Cuesta,Brandon;

Milner,Helen V.;

Nielson,Daniel Lafayette;

Knack,Stephen;
Document Date
2017/07/05
Report Number
WPS8137
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Uganda, Ghana,
Region
Western and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2017/07/05
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid
Keywords
oil

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de la Cuesta,Brandon; Milner,Helen V.; Nielson,Daniel Lafayette; Knack,Stephen.

Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8137 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572791499277180729

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