Prosocial Behavior and its Impact on Corruption and State Capacity

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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Lauren
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-15T20:47:21Z
dc.date.available2019-07-15T20:47:21Z
dc.date.issued2019-04
dc.descriptionHonors thesis Spring 2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers individual and social factors influencing an individual’s willingness to condone cheating on taxes by examining country- and individual-level data. Corruption appears to have a positive effect on tax evasion, which hinders a country’s state administrative capacity by restricting available resources. Furthermore, an individual’s prosocial attributes tend to encourage their opposition to cheating on taxes. By bringing these two outcomes together, the resulting implication is that by reducing a country’s corruption and increasing community-focused characteristics in individuals, the probability of tax evasion may decrease, leading to improved state capacity and social capital.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11416/456
dc.publisherFlorida Southern Collegeen_US
dc.subjectTax evasionen_US
dc.subjectCorruptionen_US
dc.subjectSocial statusen_US
dc.titleProsocial Behavior and its Impact on Corruption and State Capacityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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