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Reproducibility package for How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics

2023
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PP_WLD_2023_37-v01
DOI
https://doi.org/10.60572/c73w-j635
Author(s)
Oyebola Okunogbe, Gabriel Tourek
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Created on
Nov 17, 2023
Last modified
Feb 09, 2024
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    Readme Get Reproducibility Package
    Link: https://reproducibility.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/80/download/200/README.pdf
    Reproducibility package for How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
    Title
    Reproducibility package for How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
    Date
    2023-11
    Software
    Stata, R
    Dependencies
    - Stata: estout, grstyle, palettes, revrs, blindschemes - R: haven, dplyr, ggplot2, reshape2, tidyverse, pracma, lubridate, scales, gt, tidymodels, sae, readxl, tidyr, foreign, grid, forcats
    Notes
    Computational reproducibility verified by Development Impact (DIME) Analytics team, World Bank.
    Source code repository
    Repository name URI
    Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank) https://reproducibility.worldbank.org
    Software
    Stata
    Name
    Stata
    Version
    18.0
    R
    Name
    R
    Version
    4.2.1

    Reproducibility

    Technology environment

    Paper exhibits were reproduced in one computer with the following specifications:

    • OS: Windows 10 Enterprise, version 21H2
    • Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R CPU @ 2.9GHz (20 CPUs)
    • Memory available: 128 GB
    • Software version: Stata/MP 18.0, R 4.2.1
    Technology requirements

    4 minutes runtime

    Reproduction instructions

    Follow instructions in the README to recreate the environments and reproduce the results.

    Data

    Datasets
    UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset
    Name
    UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset
    Note
    Contains country-level measures of tax variables. The dataset copy used by the authors is included in the replication directory in Data/01_base/unuwider_data.
    Access policy
    Data is public and included in the reproducibility package.
    Data URL
    https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/GRD-2022
    UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database
    Name
    UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database
    Note
    Contains country-level measures of inequality. The dataset copy used by the authors is included in the replication directory in Data/01_base/unuwider_data.
    Access policy
    Data is public and included in the reproducibility package.
    Data URL
    https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/WIID-300622
    International Survey on Revenue Administration (CIAT, IMF, IOTA, OECD 2022)
    Name
    International Survey on Revenue Administration (CIAT, IMF, IOTA, OECD 2022)
    Note
    Contains survey data collected from national tax authorities. The dataset copies used by the authors is included in the replication directory in Data/01_base/rafit_data.
    Access policy
    Data is public and included in the reproducibility package.
    Data URL
    https://www.imf.org/en/Capacity-Development/Training/ICDTC/Courses/ISORA
    OECD Inventory of Tax Technology Initiatives 2023 - Global Survey on Digitalisation
    Name
    OECD Inventory of Tax Technology Initiatives 2023 - Global Survey on Digitalisation
    Note
    Contains inventory of tools and digitization solutions implemented by national tax authorities. The dataset copies used by the authors is included in the replication directory in Data/01_base/taxtech_data.
    Access policy
    Data is public and included in the reproducibility package.
    Data URL
    https://www.oecd.org/tax/forum-on-tax-administration/tax-technology-tools-and-digital-solutions/
    Lagos State Government Digest of Statistics (2006, 2010, 2013)
    Name
    Lagos State Government Digest of Statistics (2006, 2010, 2013)
    Note
    Contains measures of revenues for Lagos State, Nigeria. The dataset manually entered from the gazettes by the authors is included in the replication directory in Data/01_base/lagos_data
    Details of existing taxation studies
    Name
    Details of existing taxation studies
    Note
    Contains details of interventions and measures of effect sizes as described in existing studies of taxation. These details were compiled from individual publications by the authors. The dataset compiled by the authors is included in the replication directory in Data/01_base/intervention_data.
    Data statement

    All data is public and contained in the reproducibility package.

    Description

    Output
    How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
    Type
    Published Paper
    Title
    How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
    Authors
    Oyebola Okunogbe, Gabriel Tourek
    URL
    https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.38.1.81
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.38.1.81
    Authors
    Author Affiliation Email
    Oyebola Okunogbe World Bank ookunogbe@worldbank.org
    Gabriel Tourek University of Pittsburgh gabriel.tourek@pitt.edu
    Date of production

    2023-11

    Scope and coverage

    Geographic locations
    Location Code
    World WLD

    Disclaimer

    Disclaimer

    The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.

    Access and rights

    License
    Name URI
    Modified BSD3 https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    Oyebola Okunogbe World Bank ookunogbe@worldbank.org
    Reproducibility WBG World Bank reproducibility@worldbank.org

    Information on metadata

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    San Martin LESM World Bank Junior data scientist
    Date of Production

    2023-11-16

    Document version

    1

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