| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29923 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29923 |
| Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana | |
| James Dzansi; Anders Jensen; David Lagakos; Henry Telli | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-04-11 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then randomize the use of a new revenue collection technology within one large municipal government. Revenue collectors using the new technology delivered 27 percent more bills and collected 103 percent more tax revenues than control collectors. Collectors using the new technology learned faster about which households in their assigned areas were willing and able to make payments. We reconcile these experimental findings in a simple Beckerian time-use model in which technology allows revenue collectors to better allocate their time towards households that are the most likely to comply with taxpaying duties. The model's predictions are consistent with experimental evidence showing that treatment collectors are more likely to target households with greater liquidity, income, awareness of taxpaying duties, and satisfaction with local public goods provision. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29923 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587596 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James Dzansi,Anders Jensen,David Lagakos,et al. Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana. 2022. |
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