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- 29th May 2014
BIT first trial in Latin America goes live!
As part of a new partnership with the World Bank, we launched our first trial in Latin America this week.Working closely with the Guatemalan tax authority - Superintendencia Administracion Tributaria (SAT) - our Head of International Development, Simon Ruda, and Assistant Advisor Stewart Kettle spent time in Guatemala setting up…
- Blog
- 22nd Dec 2014
Results from BIT tax trial in Guatemala
You might remember reading a blog post back in May that announced the launch of our first randomised controlled trials in Latin America, in partnership with the World Bank. We now have results. The trial tested redesigned reminder letters to Guatemalan taxpayers who had failed to declare their income tax…
Also available in: Español
- Blog
- 22nd Dec 2014
Results from BIT tax trial in Guatemala
Quizás recuerde haber leído una publicación en mayo que anunciaba el lanzamiento de nuestros primeros ensayos controlados aleatorios en América Latina, en asociación con el Banco Mundial. Ahora tenemos resultados. El ensayo probó cartas recordatorias rediseñadas para los contribuyentes guatemaltecos que no habían declarado su impuesto sobre la renta a…
Also available in: English
- Blog
- 30th Jan 2015
The Global Spread of Behavioural Insights: Conditions for Success of a Central Unit
Last Friday, our CEO (David Halpern) and Managing Director (Owain Service) attended a big OECD conference on the use of behavioural insights in policy. David co-chaired the event, and Owain led a session on mainstreaming behavioural insights in to government institutions.With delegations flying in from across the globe, it was…
- Academic publication
- 15th Jun 2016
Behavioral Interventions in Tax Compliance: Evidence from Guatemala
This paper presents results from a large (43,387) nationwide randomized controlled trial in Guatemala that used reminders to promote tax compliance.
- Academic publication
- 21st Jun 2016
Casting the Tax Net Wider: Experimental Evidence from Costa Rica
The majority of firms in developing countries are informal, and encouraging them to register with the tax authority has proven challenging and costly.
- Blog
- 22nd Sep 2016
Incremento del pago de impuestos en Costa Rica
En los últimos años, BIT ha implementado una serie de pruebas exitosas utilizando cartas para recordar a las personas que paguen sus impuestos. En marzo de 2015, realizamos nuestra primera prueba en Costa Rica. En este caso, probamos el envío de correos electrónicos, una intervención de menor costo que las…
Also available in: English
- Publication
- 26th Sep 2016
Behavioural Economics Guide - Vol 1 Public Policy - Mexican Institute for Behavioural Economics
The Mexican Institute for Behavioural Economics has published their Behavioural Economics Guide. The guide, one of the first of its kind to be written in Spanish, focuses on the application of behavioural economics to public policy. Covering a range of topics, the guide includes a chapter written by the Behavioural…
- Academic publication
- 28th Apr 2017
Failure to CAPTCHA Attention: Null Results from an Honesty Priming Experiment in Guatemala
We report results from a large online randomised tax experiment in Guatemala. The trial involves short messages and choices presented to taxpayers as part of a CAPTCHA pop-up window immediately before they file a tax return, with the aim of priming honest declarations.
- Blog
- 25th Aug 2017
Using behavioral insights to support early child development in the Syria response
We are living in a time when more families have been forced from their homes by conflict and crisis than at any other time since World War II. The most vulnerable among these are children. Refugee children are often deprived of educational opportunities, some are separated from their families, and…