Income hiding and informal redistribution: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal
Marie Boltz
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Karine Marazyan
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Paola Villar
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Résumé
We estimate the hidden cost of social obligations to redistribute exploiting data from a controlled setting in urban Senegal, which combines lab-in-the-field measures and out-of-lab follow-up data. We estimate a social tax of about 9 percent. When given the opportunity to get hidden income, individuals decrease by 26 percent the share of gains they transfer to kin — mostly outside the household — and increase health and personal expenses. We expand on prior literature by both identifying the individual cost of informal redistribution and then relating it to postexperiment resource-allocation decisions, and by disentangling intra- and interhousehold redistributive pressure.
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We estimate the hidden cost of social obligations to redistribute exploiting data from a controlled setting in urban Senegal, which combines lab-in-the-field measures and out-of-lab follow-up data. We estimate a social tax of about 9 percent. When given the opportunity to get hidden income, individuals decrease by 26 percent the share of gains they transfer to kin — mostly outside the household — and increase health and personal expenses. We expand on prior literature by both identifying the individual cost of informal redistribution and then relating it to postexperiment resource-allocation decisions, and by disentangling intra- and interhousehold redistributive pressure.
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Income hiding and informal redistribution: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal
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Auteur(s) |
Marie Boltz
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, Karine Marazyan
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, Paola Villar
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CES -
Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
( 15080 )
- Maison des Sciences Économiques - 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
- France
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IEDES -
Instutut d'Études du Développement de la Sorbonne
( 312641 )
- 45 bis, avenue de la Belle Gabrielle 94130 Nogent-sur-Marne
- France
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DEVSOC -
UMR Développement et Sociétés
( 94931 )
- 45 bis avenue de la Belle Gabrielle - 94736 NOGENT SUR MARNE - FRANCE
- France
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INED -
Institut national d'études démographiques
( 57627 )
- Campus Condorcet
9, cours des Humanités - CS 50004
93322 Aubervilliers Cedex
- France
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UNamur -
Université de Namur [Namur]
( 364917 )
- Rempart de la Vierge 8, 5000 Namur
- Belgique
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Non
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Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2019-03
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Date de publication électronique |
2018-12-01
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Volume |
137
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Page/Identifiant |
78-92
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Anglais
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Africa, Lab-in-the-field experiment, Resource allocation decisions, Extended families, Informal redistribution, Income observability
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DOI | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.11.004 |
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