Income hiding and informal redistribution: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal

Paola Villar, Marie Boltz, Karine Marazyan

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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.
langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)78-92
Nombre de pages15
journalJournal of Development Economics
Volume137
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 1 mars 2019

Financement

This work was supported by the CEPREMAP; the PSE Research Fund; the Sarah Andrieux Fund; the Chair G-Mond; the IRD; the UMR Développement et Société; the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche [through the program Investissements d'Avenir, ANR-10-LABX-93-01]. This research is also part of the NOPOOR project, which is funded by the European Union under the 7th Research Framework Programme (Theme SSH.2011.1) - Grant Agreement No. 290752. This work was supported by the CEPREMAP ; the PSE Research Fund; the Sarah Andrieux Fund; the Chair G-Mond; the IRD; the UMR Développement et Société; the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche [through the program Investissements d'Avenir, ANR-10-LABX-93-01]. This research is also part of the NOPOOR project, which is funded by the European Union under the 7th Research Framework Programme (Theme SSH.2011.1) - Grant Agreement No. 290752 .

Bailleurs de fondsNuméro du bailleur de fonds
7th Research Framework Programme
Sarah Andrieux Fund
UMR Développement et Société
Seventh Framework Programme290752
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
European commission
Agence Nationale de la RechercheANR-10-LABX-93-01

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