Does exposure to aid projects affect citizens’ motivation to pay taxes? As a form of externally-led state building, foreign aid projects can affect citizens’ perceptions of their domestic institutions in unintended ways. We combine geo-coded data on World Bank aid projects and survey data...

Do aid projects affect citizens' motivation to pay taxes? We address this question by combining fine-grained data on aid projects from AidData and survey data from the Afrobarometer for 34 African countries. We first employ a subnational analysis, where the treatment varies by administrative...