作者:Drago, Francesco; Mengel, Friederike; Traxler, Christian
作者单位:University of Catania; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Essex; Lund University; Hertie School
摘要:This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks in Austria. We exploit a field experiment that varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. The data reveal a strong treatment spillover: untreated households are more likely to switch from evasion to compliance in response to mailings received by their network neighbors. Digging deeper into the properties of the spillover, we find that it is concentrated among close neighbors of the t...