Are you willing to pay? War and citizen's readiness to pay tax: The case of Ukraine

Lesley-Ann Daniels and Frank Borge Wietzke

No wp-2025-57, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Bellicose theories of state-building suggest that wars enable the emergence of strong states via the mechanism of increased war-time fiscal capacities. We explore the hitherto little-analysed micro-level foundations of this claim. Does the experience of war increase public support for higher taxation? Furthermore, is this support limited to only defensive purposes, or does it extend to other war-related but forward-looking goals like post-war reconstruction and cohesion-building? We implement a survey experiment during the ongoing war in Ukraine to address the above questions.

Keywords: War; Statebuilding; Taxation; Fiscal capacity; Ukraine; Experimental design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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