Published in:ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper ; No. 15-008
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (47 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2570742
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 19, 2015 erstellt
Description:
This paper studies the evasion of TV license fees in Austria. We exploit border differentials to identify the effect of fees on evasion. Comparing municipalities at the low- and high-fee side of state borders reveals that higher fees trigger significantly more evasion. The central estimate from a spatial regression discontinuity design indicates that a one percent increase in fees raises the evasion rate by 0.3 percentage points. The positive effect of fees on evasion is confirmed in different parametric and non-parametric approaches and survives several robustness checks