The assignment of workers to tasks and teams is a key margin of firm productivity and a potential source of state effectiveness. This paper investigates whether a low-capacity state can increase its tax revenue by optimally assigning its tax collectors. We study the two-stage random assignment...

Adjisse, Blimpo, and Castañeda Dower (2024) reproduce the tables and figures of Balán et al. (2022) with the exception an incorrect sign on one coefficient in Table 5. Although not central to Balán et al. (2022), we are grateful to have discovered this error and have submitted a corrigendum...

Adjisse, Blimpo, and Castañeda Dower (2024) reproduce the tables and figures of Balán et al. (2022) with the exception an incorrect sign on one coefficient in Table 5. Although not central to Balán et al. (2022), we are grateful to have discovered this error and have submitted a corrigendum...

Balán et al. (2022) evaluate the impact of "local elites" involvement in local tax collection in a large city in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Using a randomized controlled trial to vary the identities of tax collectors, they find that local elites' involvement raises tax compliance and...