Taxation without Representation? : Experimental Evidence from Ghana and Uganda on Citizen Action toward Taxes, Oil, and Aid

Taxation without Representation? : Experimental Evidence from Ghana and Uganda on Citizen Action toward Taxes, Oil, and Aid

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 Uga...

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Main Authors: de la Cuesta, Brandon, Milner, Helen V., Nielson, Daniel, Knack, Stephen
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
TAXATION
AID
ACCOUNTABILITY
OIL REVENUE
ENDOWMENT EFFECT
DEVELOPMENT
TRANSPARENCY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572791499277180729/Taxation-without-representation-experimental-evidence-from-Ghana-and-Uganda-on-citizen-action-toward-taxes-oil-and-aid
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27640

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572791499277180729/Taxation-without-representation-experimental-evidence-from-Ghana-and-Uganda-on-citizen-action-toward-taxes-oil-and-aid
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27640

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