Original paper

Nudging with your child’s education. A field experiment on collecting municipal dues when enforcement is scant

Volume: 191, Pages: 109116 - 109116
Published: Jun 1, 2020
Abstract
We study whether nudging can improve payment morale for taxes and dues when enforcement through public institutions is low because of social reasons. In a natural field experiment involving the parents of children who attend lessons in a municipal music school, we find that nudging parents with appeals to children’s education improves the punctual payment of dues by about five percentage points, which is considerable given a base rate of only...
Paper Details
Title
Nudging with your child’s education. A field experiment on collecting municipal dues when enforcement is scant
Published Date
Jun 1, 2020
Volume
191
Pages
109116 - 109116
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