Knowledge Without Taxation? Experimental Evidence from a Tax Education Program -- by Anders Jensen, Nikhil Kumar, Konstantin Poensgen

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from USAID and Harvard University. We thank Louis Becker, Augustin Bergeron, Emily Breza, Raj Chetty, David Cutler, Eva Davoine, Rema Hanna, Lev Klarnet, Gabriel Kreindler, Daniel Overbeck, Emily Silcock, Davide Viviano, Mary Yilma, and Oliver York for helpful discussions and comments. We are especially thankful to James Dzansi, Henry Telli, and David Lagakos for their help in setting up the field experiment and data collection, and to Abass Abdul Fatawu for helping implement the field experiment. We thank Sedzro Mensah and the excellent team at DataPlas for their support in the data collection process. We are indebted to the staff at the local government of Ablekuma Central for their collaboration and expertise. We thank K. Shankari from the NREL for helping us use the software OpenPATH. The project has ethics approvals from the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects at Harvard University (protocol IRB24-1119). The trial has been registered at the AEA Registry: AEARCTR-0015079. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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