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The Role of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations for Tax Compliance in Germany

Effectively Targeting Anti-Poverty Programs in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Ben Olken
Julia Tobias
Researchers in Indonesia compared the effectiveness of two methods of identifying the low-income households: a community method where villagers ranked households according to perceived wealth, and a proxy-means test which relied on measures of consumption and assets. The community methods of...
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Legal Representation and Housing Court Cases in the United States

James Greiner
Jonathan Hennessy
Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak

Publicizing Tax Credits for Political Contributions in the United States

Robert G. Boatright
Donald Green
Michael J. Malbin
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Using Media to Change Norms and Behaviors in Post-Genocide Rwanda

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The Effect of Discussion Group Composition on Policy Preferences in the United States

Cynthia Farrar
Donald Green
Jennifer E. Green
David W. Nickerson
Steven Shewfelt
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Countering Covid-19 Misinformation through WhatsApp in Zimbabwe

Jeremy Bowles
Horacio Larreguy
Shelley Liu
In this randomized evaluation in Zimbabwe, researchers studied how social media messages targeting misinformation can affect people’s beliefs about and responses toward Covid-19. The study found that these messages increased participants’ knowledge of Covid-19 information by 7 percentage points and...
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Voting "Because Others Will Ask" in the United States

Stefano DellaVigna
John List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao