Brandon De La Cuesta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon De La Cuesta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon |
| FAMILY NAME | De La Cuesta |
| SIGNATURE | DE LA CUESTA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5507-2245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens
Taxation is fundamental to citizen-government relations. Seminal accounts attribute democratization to direct taxation's rise, and recent evidence shows that direct taxes increase citizens' accountability demands. However, today many governments rely heavily on indirect taxes; evidence is mixed on whether they have similar effects. We present cross-national data demonstrating that indirect taxes are associated with lower levels of government acco…
Owning It: Accountability and Citizens’ Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes
Government accountability is severely lacking in many developing countries, yet we know relatively little about the causal dynamics that produce citizen demands for greater responsiveness. We argue that a sense of ownership over public money heightens expectations for government services and induces expressive demands for accountability, and we apply the new theory in sub-Saharan Africa. Results from a series of lab-in-the-field experiments in Ug…
Improving the External Validity of Conjoint Analysis: The Essential Role of Profile Distribution
Conjoint analysis has become popular among social scientists for measuring multidimensional preferences. When analyzing such experiments, researchers often focus on the average marginal component effect (AMCE), which represents the causal effect of a single profile attribute while averaging over the remaining attributes. What has been overlooked, however, is the fact that the AMCE critically relies upon the distribution of the other attributes us…
Misunderstandings About the Regression Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Elections
Recently, the regression discontinuity (RD) design has become increasingly popular among social scientists. One prominent application is the study of close elections. We explicate several methodological misunderstandings widespread across disciplines by revisiting the controversy concerning the validity of RD design when applied to close elections. Although many researchers invoke the local or as-if-random assumption near the threshold, it is mor…
Misunderstandings About the Regression Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Elections
Recently, the regression discontinuity (RD) design has become increasingly popular among social scientists. One prominent application is the study of close elections. We explicate several methodological misunderstandings widespread across disciplines by revisiting the controversy concerning the validity of RD design when applied to close elections. Although many researchers invoke the local or as-if-random assumption near the threshold, it is mor…
Improving the External Validity of Conjoint Analysis: The Essential Role of Profile Distribution
Conjoint analysis has become popular among social scientists for measuring multidimensional preferences. When analyzing such experiments, researchers often focus on the average marginal component effect (AMCE), which represents the causal effect of a single profile attribute while averaging over the remaining attributes. What has been overlooked, however, is the fact that the AMCE critically relies upon the distribution of the other attributes us…
Owning It: Accountability and Citizens’ Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes
Government accountability is severely lacking in many developing countries, yet we know relatively little about the causal dynamics that produce citizen demands for greater responsiveness. We argue that a sense of ownership over public money heightens expectations for government services and induces expressive demands for accountability, and we apply the new theory in sub-Saharan Africa. Results from a series of lab-in-the-field experiments in Ug…
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens
Taxation is fundamental to citizen-government relations. Seminal accounts attribute democratization to direct taxation's rise, and recent evidence shows that direct taxes increase citizens' accountability demands. However, today many governments rely heavily on indirect taxes; evidence is mixed on whether they have similar effects. We present cross-national data demonstrating that indirect taxes are associated with lower levels of government acco…
Misunderstandings About the Regression Discontinuity Design in the Study of Close Elections
Recently, the regression discontinuity (RD) design has become increasingly popular among social scientists. One prominent application is the study of close elections. We explicate several methodological misunderstandings widespread across disciplines by revisiting the controversy concerning the validity of RD design when applied to close elections. Although many researchers invoke the local or as-if-random assumption near the threshold, it is mor…
Owning It: Accountability and Citizens’ Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes
Government accountability is severely lacking in many developing countries, yet we know relatively little about the causal dynamics that produce citizen demands for greater responsiveness. We argue that a sense of ownership over public money heightens expectations for government services and induces expressive demands for accountability, and we apply the new theory in sub-Saharan Africa. Results from a series of lab-in-the-field experiments in Ug…
Improving the External Validity of Conjoint Analysis: The Essential Role of Profile Distribution
Conjoint analysis has become popular among social scientists for measuring multidimensional preferences. When analyzing such experiments, researchers often focus on the average marginal component effect (AMCE), which represents the causal effect of a single profile attribute while averaging over the remaining attributes. What has been overlooked, however, is the fact that the AMCE critically relies upon the distribution of the other attributes us…
Do Indirect Taxes Bite? How Hiding Taxes Erases Accountability Demands from Citizens
Taxation is fundamental to citizen-government relations. Seminal accounts attribute democratization to direct taxation's rise, and recent evidence shows that direct taxes increase citizens' accountability demands. However, today many governments rely heavily on indirect taxes; evidence is mixed on whether they have similar effects. We present cross-national data demonstrating that indirect taxes are associated with lower levels of government acco…
Economics (3 works) · Accountability (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Econometrics (2 works) · External validity (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)