Evading the family tax: a costly hide-and-seek strategy evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal

Boltz, Marie; Marazyan, Karine; Villar, Paola

Boltz, Marie; Marazyan, Karine; Villar, Paola (2017), Evading the family tax: a costly hide-and-seek strategy evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal, Nopoor Policy Brief, 21, p. 6. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/18179

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2017

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Nopoor Policy Brief

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Auteur(s)

Boltz, Marie

Marazyan, Karine
Centre de Recherches de l'Iedes [CRI]
Villar, Paola

Résumé (EN)

This study estimates the hidden cost of informal redistribution in urban Senegal. It is based on a lab-in-the-field experiment combined with a small-scale randomized controlled trial. The results show high costs associated to avoiding the family tax, a large majority of people being to pay a high cost to keep their gains in private. Moreover, when given the opportunity to hide, people decrease the transfers to kin and increase private and health expenses.