Public Attitudes toward Corruption and Tax Evasion: Investigating the role of gender over time
@inproceedings{Torgler2006PublicAT, title={Public Attitudes toward Corruption and Tax Evasion: Investigating the role of gender over time}, author={Benno Torgler and Neven Tomov Valev}, year={2006} }
In recent years the topics of illegal activities such as corruption or tax evasion have attracted a great deal of attention. However, there is still a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of compliance. The aim of this paper is to investigate empirically whether women are more willing to be compliant than men and whether we observe (among women and in general) differences in attitudes among similar age groups in different time periods (cohort effect) or changing…
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