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No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state development

This paper combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity...

State capacity Information Fiscal capacity
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Informed participation: the effects of information treatment on panel non-response

This paper builds on a longitudinal school-to-work transition phone survey experiment to quantify the effects on attrition of communicating with participants...

Survey Participation Information
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Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme?: Evidence from a field experiment in India

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures?...

Implementation Information randomization
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Updating great expectations: The effect of peer salary information on own-earnings forecasts

How jobseekers set their earnings expectations is central to job search models...

Wage expectation Information Heuristics
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