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Publications & Knowledge

Our team has produced a broad set of publications and policy papers using micro tax data. 

Below you can access our publications and reports, which are categorized into four thematic pillars. We also offer some general guidance on how to work with micro tax data. 

Tax Compliance & Revenue

📑 Journal Articles

Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay's Financial Inclusion Reform
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming)

Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024

Firms as Tax Collectors
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 233, 2024

Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 72, No. 2, 2024

How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024

Technology, Taxation and Corruption: Experimental Evidence from Electronic Tax Filing
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2022

Casting a Wider Tax Net: Experimental Evidence from Costa Rica
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2019

Trade Between Algeria and Mali: The Normality of Informality
Middle East Development Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2017

📑 Reports & Working Papers

Offshore Data Leaks and Tax Enforcement in Developing Countries

Do Deadline Extensions Encourage Tax Filing? Evidence from Pakistan

Strengthening Personal Income Taxation in Senegal - Case Study 

Promoting Tax Compliance in Kosovo with Behavioral Insights

Behavioral Insights for Tax Compliance

Improving Consumption-Based Tax Compliance: Evidence from Point of Sale Usage in Subnational Governments in Indonesia

Nudging in the Time of the Coronavirus : Evidence from an Experimental Tax Trial in Albania at the Onset of a Global Pandemic 

Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance

 

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