Laura Montenbruck, Assistant Professor in Economics at Stockholm University, has been awarded the IIPF Young Economists Award for her study on enhancing citizens’ willingness to pay taxes by showing the link between tax revenues and public services.
Her field experiment in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with 5,494 property owners and tenants, demonstrated that clear information about public services increased property tax compliance by an average of 20 percent, with even stronger effects for lower-value properties. The award was presented at the IIPF conference in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 20–22.
Source: Stockholm University
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