This paper aims to understand how to explain carbon taxes and how to design redistribution policies to win support for carbon taxes using a representative survey on 3,460 Chinese citizens. Each participant is randomly assigned to two sets of information: (i) what the carbon tax is and how it works; and (ii) personalized information on gains and losses under a specific carbon tax redistribution...
This article provides evidence that increased salience of public service provision can strengthen the social contract and increase tax compliance in a low-capacity setting. I conduct a field experiment randomizing information about public service provision across 5,494 property owners and tenants in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Receiving information increases property tax payments by 20% on...
In this study, we estimated the potential impacts of home energy reports (HERs) on energy efficient behaviours among residential customers of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. We partnered with one of the two major retail power distribution companies. Using administrative consumption data, we developed HERs with social feedback or descriptive norms, where customers received comparisons between...
