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040 _aES-MaIEF
_bspa
_cES-MaIEF
041 _aeng
100 1 _954627
_aFeldman, Naomi E.
245 0 _aRaising the stakes
_b : experimental evidence on the endogeneity of taxpayer mistakes
_c Naomi Feldman, Jacob Goldin and Tatiana Homonoff
260 _c2019
500 _aDisponible también en formato electrónico en la Biblioteca del IEF.
500 _aResumen.
504 _aBibliografía.
520 _aRecent evidence suggests consumers fail to account for taxes that are excluded from a good's displayed price. What is less understood is whether and how such "salience effects" depend on the magnitude of the tax. We conduct a laboratory shopping experiment with real stakes to study the effect of tax size on salience. We find no evidence that salience effects decline as the tax rate increases; we document a statistically significant salience effect at a tax rate that is considerably larger than the tax rates at which such effects have been previously documented. In fact, our results are more consistent with the hypothesis that higher taxes make consumers less attentive (at least for the range of taxes we consider). This result can be explained by a confirmation bias theory of salience: consumers tend to disregard information (like a tax) that does not align with their intention to purchase an item, and this lack of alignment increases in the size of the tax.
650 _aCONSUMO
_940658
650 _aIMPUESTOS
_947460
650 _aPRESION FISCAL
_948102
650 _aCONSUMIDORES
_940657
650 _aCONDUCTA
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700 1 _964142
_aGoldin, Jacob
700 1 _966809
_aHomonoff, Tatiana A.
773 0 _9160558
_oOP 233/2018/2
_tNational Tax Journal
_w(IEF)86491
_x 0028-0283
_g v. 71, n. 2, June 2018, p. 201-230
942 _cART
999 _c140762
_d140762