Arbeitspapier
Tax morale and the role of social norms and reciprocity - Evidence from a randomized survey experiment
We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a reciprocity treatment have significantly higher tax morale than those in a social-norm treatment. This suggests that a potential backfire effect of social norms is outweighed if the consequences of violating the social norm are made salient. We further document the anatomy of intrinsic motivations for tax compliance and present first evidence that previously found gender effects in tax morale are not driven by differences in risk preferences.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 242
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Firm
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
Field Experiments
- Thema
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Tax compliance
tax evasion
instrinsic motivation
tax morale
social norms
reciprocity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Doerrenberg, Philipp
Peichl, Andreas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Doerrenberg, Philipp
- Peichl, Andreas
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Entstanden
- 2017