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ECIN Replication Package for "Outcomes or Participation? Experimentally Testing Competing Sources of Legitimacy for Taxation"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; Luigi Mittone, University of Trento; Azzurra Morreale, LUT University

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Project Citation:

Engel, Christoph, Mittone, Luigi, and Morreale, Azzurra. ECIN Replication Package for “Outcomes or Participation? Experimentally Testing Competing Sources of Legitimacy for Taxation.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-09-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193522V2

Project Description

Summary: Legitimacy may result from support for projects that a government implements. However, legitimacy may also result from the opportunity to participate in the selection process of projects. We tested the strength of these competing sources of legitimacy experimentally and their relationship. We find a straightforward effect of the former: the more projects a participant supports, the higher their taxes. Participants are also willing to pay for participation; if they have had a say, they pay higher taxes. Yet, most of this effect is actually instrumental: participants want participation to ensure that their taxes are used for purposes they deem acceptable.

Funding Sources: no funding to report

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: tax morale; legitimacy; rule following; experiment

JEL Classification:
C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual

Manuscript Number: ECIN-Mar-2023-0106.R1

Geographic Coverage: Italy, Germany

Time Period(s): 2022 – 2023

Collection Date(s): 2022 – 2023

Data Type(s): experimental data

Methodology

Data Source: experimental data, collected in the computer lab of University of Trento's econ faculty

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