Delaying Enforcement Amid Crisis: The compliance effects of communicating state flexibility in the residential electricity sector

Autor: Berens, Sarah, Menéndez, Irene, von Schiller, Armin, Cariboni, Santiago
Rok vydání: 2022
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DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/fxh2u
Popis: Through a randomized control trial we evaluate a recently introduced debt-installment policy by the public electricity company UTE in Uruguay on reducing electricity informality. We send information treatments in the form of letters to non-poor households who accumulated debt during 2020. We test the effect of a policy reminder designed to raise awareness of the policy, combined with horizontal and vertical reciprocity treatments, on the likelihood that households remain formal consumers. We analyze the effect of different treatment arms using administrative data on individual payment behavior and original survey data, thus analyzing behavioral and attitudinal changes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE