Misperceptions of social norms about tax compliance: From theory to intervention

By Michael Wenzel. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Are the Neighbors Cheating? Evidence from a Social Norm Experiment on Property Taxes in Peru Job Market Paper (2014, background): “Existing interventions have targeted both types of norms distinguished in the social psychology literature: descriptive –what other people actually do (Blumenthal et. al 2001), and prescriptive –what people approve of (Wenzel 2005).”
Normative Influences on Adolescents’ Self-Reported Pro-Environmental Behaviors: The Role of Parents and Friends (2019, background): “For example, Wenzel (2005) found that taxpayers tend to overestimate others’ acceptance of tax evasion.”
Tax compliance in a social setting: The influence of social norms, trust in government, and perceived fairness on taxpayer compliance (2016, background): “Some studies examining social norms as a single construct have found support for the theory that personal norms at least partially mediate the relationship between social norms and evasion (Blanthorne & Kaplan, 2008;Wenzel, 2005).”
The Behavioralist as Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance (2017, background): “There is some non-field experimental evidence that compliance increases after individuals are presented with such norm information (Wenzel, 2005a; Alm et al., 2013; Bobek, Hageman & Kelliher, 2013).”
Using Social Norms to Change Behavior and Increase Sustainability in the Real World: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2019, background): “Kenya Sexual health/HIV 87 [176] Wenzel 2005 Misperceptions of social norms about tax compliance: From theory to intervention.”
Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it (2013, background): “but only when they identified with the group to which the norm was attributed (Wenzel, 2005).”
Social norms and cooperation in real-life social dilemmas (2008, background): “…out as an important cause of unhealthy and/or anti-social behaviour (e.g., Campo, Brossard, & Frazer, 2003; Neighbors, Larimer, & Lewis, 2004; Wenzel, 2005), which has led to the development of a ‘‘social norms approach” to behaviour change (e.g., Campo et al., 2003; Haines & Spear, 1996;…”
The Economic Psychology of Tax Behaviour (2007, background): “Effects of social norms on personal tax ethics at low versus high levels of identification (reprinted from Wenzel, 2005b, p. 501, with permission from Elsevier) 69 11.”