Successful Fiscal Reforms: How Reform Design Shapes Acceptance, Protest, and Compliance

• In Event: Fiscal and State Capacity Around the World and in the Lab

Brief Overview

Lab experiment shows how fiscal reform design affects protests, effort, and tax compliance. Collective action power shapes reactions: when protests fail, individuals reduce effort or evade taxes, guiding better-calibrated reform design.

Author

• Carlos G. Scartascini, Inter-American development bank