Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5052889 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 2012 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
Elderly are generally observed to have stronger tax morale than young people. We explain why this may be an age rather than a cohort effect. We apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve over the life cycle due to past behavior (e.g., cognitive dissonance) and/or by the attitudes of peers (normative conformity). We can explain the difference between young and old people's moral values as an age effect with heterogeneous norm-updating where those who identify with their network conform with it, while others are influenced by their own past behavior.
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Authors
Katarina Nordblom, Jovan Žamac,