Nicolas Orgeira Pillai

Biographic Data

ID4385751
NAMENicolas Orgeira Pillai
GIVEN NAMESNicolas Orgeira
FAMILY NAMEPillai
SIGNATUREPILLAI N O
AFFILIATIONSInternational Centre for Tax and Development, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The post-oil post-Covid social contract

    Open AccessTom Moerenhout, Nicolas Orgeira Pillai et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Policy2025References: 64

    To improve health coverage and revenue collection, several African countries consider tax-for-health-services programs where informal workers pay income tax for health insurance. We examine these programs in Nigeria, investigating whether informal workers support such initiatives, what parameters improve program perception, and what drives preferences about these parameters. Using a conjoint survey experiment with 12,000 informal workers across 1…

  • The Politics of Taxation and Tax Reform in Times of Crisis

    Nicolas Orgeira Pillai, Vanessa Van Den Boogaard et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2024

    The pandemic has had significant fiscal implications around the world. A key question facing governments is how the pandemic has shaped taxpayer attitudes and what that means for the prospects for tax reform and new revenue raising. We aim to understand the impacts of the pandemic on attitudes toward taxation in Sierra Leone with novel survey data, collected before the pandemic, shortly after the pandemic’s onset, and for almost a year afterwards…

  • Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining

    Open AccessWilson Prichard, Samuel Jibao et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2024Cited by: 4References: 6