Novel laboratory experiments, conducted in Uganda, find that taxation increases citizens' willingness to punish leaders by 12% overall, and by 30% among the group who has the most experience paying taxes in Uganda. Additional experiments confirm that this e↵ect is driven by ...
Two identical experiments on large, representative subject pools in Ghana and Uganda probe the effects of different revenue types on citizens'actions to monitor government spending. Roughly half of all subjects willingly sign petitions and donate money to scrutinize all three sources. However, neither ...