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

Charlotte Sutter, Wolfram Rosenberger and Matthias Sutter

Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 191, issue C

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 48%. The effect persists even when the nudge is removed half a year later.

Keywords: Field experiment; Municipal dues; Payment morale; Nudging; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109116

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