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

Paola Villar; Marie Boltz; Karine Marazyan

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.11.004

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

Paola Villar, Marie Boltz, Karine Marazyan

Centre de recherche en economie du developpement

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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.

langue originale	Anglais
Pages (de - à)	78-92
Nombre de pages	15
journal	Journal of Development Economics
Volume	137
Les DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.11.004
Etat de la publication	Publié - 1 mars 2019

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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 fonds	Numéro du bailleur de fonds
7th Research Framework Programme
Sarah Andrieux Fund
UMR Développement et Société
Seventh Framework Programme	290752
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
European commission
Agence Nationale de la Recherche	ANR-10-LABX-93-01

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