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Tax audits as scarecrows: Evidence from Uruguay

How does information about tax audits affect tax evasion? Firms do increase their tax compliance but this response is not necessarily rational.

Public Economics

Marcelo Bergolo Rodrigo Ceni Guillermo Cruces Matias Giaccobasso Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Published

15.02.18

Tackling youth unemployment: Vocational training versus apprenticeships

While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training has larger impacts

Labour Markets

Oriana Bandiera Vittorio Bassi Robin Burgess Imran Rasul Munshi Sulaiman Anna Vitali

Published

13.02.18

Public servants and political bias: Evidence from the UK civil service and the World Bank

An experiment shows that public servants make errors when interpreting data, incorrectly concluding that it aligns with their ideological preferences

Institutions & Political Economy

Stefan Dercon

Published

11.01.18

The winners and losers from partial health insurance

Health insurance for families in Nicaragua had a positive impact on parents and their insured younger children, but not on uninsured older children

Health

Rebecca Thornton Anne Fitzpatrick

Published

04.01.18

Morality and credit card debt repayment in Indonesia

Do people care about morality when it comes to economic decisions with high financial stakes? An experiment with an Islamic bank's credit card customers aimed to find out

Finance

Leonardo Bursztyn Stefano Fiorin Daniel Gottlieb Martin Kanz

Published

20.12.17