Willing to Pay? Testing Institutionalist Theories with Experiments

In order to test the relationships between institutions, choices and preferences, I propose to conduct a series of Tax Compliance experiments in different countries in which we examine the different trade-offs individuals in different societies make under different conditions. Space does not permit a full elaboration of the precise questions to be asked in each experiment, but the chief purpose will be to build a series of scenarios that will allow us to test how different institutional contexts frame or shape citizens’ decisions and thereby better understand how they perceive and process different policy choices and trade-offs.