Tax Salience: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
With Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Sunniva Nygård Ingholm, Lucas Katera, Emil Løstegård, Vincent Somville and Jasmin Vietz.
International Tax and Public Finance, 2026. [Working Paper] [Brief]
The Role of Trust and Norms in Tax Compliance in Africa
With Odd-Helge Fjeldstad.
Human Development Report 2023-24. New York: UNDP, 2024.
Accountability and Taxation: Experimental Evidence
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 216, 386-432, 2023.
Understanding Inequality Within Households
With Ingvild Almås and Charlotte Ringdal.
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.
[GLO Discussion Paper]. Coverage: Forskning.no (Norwegian), Sciencenorway.no (English)
Understanding the Resource Curse: A Large-Scale Experiment on Corruption in Tanzania
With Alexander W. Cappelen, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Donald Mmari and Bertil Tungodden.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 183, pp. 129-157, 2021.
Household Bargaining and Spending on Children: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
With Charlotte Ringdal
Economica, 88, 430-455, 2021.
Coverage: GlobDev Blog, World Bank Blogs
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
With Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Cecilia Kagoma, Ephraim Mdee, and Vincent Somville.
World Development, 128, 2020 [Misum Academic Insight]
To pay or not to pay? Citizens attitudes toward taxation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa
With Merima Ali and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad.
World Development, 64, pp. 828-842, 2014.
What is Fair? Experimental Evidence on Fair Equality vs Fair Inequality
With Nadja Dwenger and Jasmin Vietz.
Revise & Resubmit, Economic Journal. [CESifo Discussion Paper 11289, CEPR Working Paper 19472].
Improving VAT Compliance by Incentivizing Customers: Evidence from Tanzania
With Kanuda Buluba, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Osama Nawab and Vincent Somville).
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics. [Working Paper]
Taxing for a Social Contract in Sub-Saharan Africa
With Anna Persson and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad
Revise & Resubmit, World Development. Draft available on request.
Leveraging Religious Leaders to Increase Voluntary Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
With Jasmin Vietz.
Investeringer i barns utdanning: Bryr kvinner seg mer enn menn? (with Charlotte Ringdal). 2019, Magma 6/2019 (peer-reviewed)
Styrer fordommer bistand? (with Charlotte Ringdal). Bergens Tidende, 31. July 2017.