Johannes Spinnewijn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5731217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Spinnewijn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Spinnewijn |
| SIGNATURE | SPINNEWIJN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7963-5847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09505-7
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium
We study the impact of simplification, deterrence, and tax morale on tax compliance. We ran four natural field experiments varying the communication of the tax administration with the universe of income taxpayers in Belgium throughout the tax process. A consistent picture emerges across experiments: (i) simplifying communication substantially increases compliance, (ii) deterrence messages have an additional positive effect, (iii) invoking tax mor…
Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences Using Choice from Insurance Menus
Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high-risk. We show how to separately identify risk preferences and risk types using only choices from menus of insurance plans. Our revealed preference approach does not rely on rational expectations, nor does it require access to claims data. We show what can be learned non-parametrically about the type distributions from variation in insurance plans, offered separately to random cross-…
Information Frictions and Adverse Selection
Despite evidence that many consumers in health insurance markets are subject to information frictions, approaches used to evaluate these markets typically assume informed, active consumers. We develop a general framework to study insurance market equilibrium in the presence of choice frictions and evaluate key policy interventions. We identify sufficient relationships between the underlying distributions of consumer costs, surplus from risk prote…
Production versus Revenue Efficiency with Limited Tax Capacity
To fight evasion, many developing countries use production-inefficient tax policies. This includes minimum tax schemes whereby firms are taxed on either profits or turnover, depending on which tax liability is larger. Such schemes create nonstandard kink points, which allow for eliciting evasion responses to switches between profit and turnover taxes using a bunching approach. Using administrative data on corporations in Pakistan, we estimate tha…
Insurance and Perceptions
People have very different beliefs about the risks they face. I analyse how heterogeneous risk perceptions affect the insurance contracts offered by profit‐maximising firms. An essential distinction is how risk perceptions affect the willingness to pay for insurance relative to the willingness to exert risk‐reducing effort. This determines both the sign of the correlation between risk and insurance coverage in equilibrium, shedding new light on a…
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium
We study the impact of simplification, deterrence, and tax morale on tax compliance. We ran four natural field experiments varying the communication of the tax administration with the universe of income taxpayers in Belgium throughout the tax process. A consistent picture emerges across experiments: (i) simplifying communication substantially increases compliance, (ii) deterrence messages have an additional positive effect, (iii) invoking tax mor…
Production versus Revenue Efficiency with Limited Tax Capacity
To fight evasion, many developing countries use production-inefficient tax policies. This includes minimum tax schemes whereby firms are taxed on either profits or turnover, depending on which tax liability is larger. Such schemes create nonstandard kink points, which allow for eliciting evasion responses to switches between profit and turnover taxes using a bunching approach. Using administrative data on corporations in Pakistan, we estimate tha…
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09505-7
Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences Using Choice from Insurance Menus
Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high-risk. We show how to separately identify risk preferences and risk types using only choices from menus of insurance plans. Our revealed preference approach does not rely on rational expectations, nor does it require access to claims data. We show what can be learned non-parametrically about the type distributions from variation in insurance plans, offered separately to random cross-…
Insurance and Perceptions
People have very different beliefs about the risks they face. I analyse how heterogeneous risk perceptions affect the insurance contracts offered by profit‐maximising firms. An essential distinction is how risk perceptions affect the willingness to pay for insurance relative to the willingness to exert risk‐reducing effort. This determines both the sign of the correlation between risk and insurance coverage in equilibrium, shedding new light on a…
Insurance and Perceptions
People have very different beliefs about the risks they face. I analyse how heterogeneous risk perceptions affect the insurance contracts offered by profit‐maximising firms. An essential distinction is how risk perceptions affect the willingness to pay for insurance relative to the willingness to exert risk‐reducing effort. This determines both the sign of the correlation between risk and insurance coverage in equilibrium, shedding new light on a…
Production versus Revenue Efficiency with Limited Tax Capacity
To fight evasion, many developing countries use production-inefficient tax policies. This includes minimum tax schemes whereby firms are taxed on either profits or turnover, depending on which tax liability is larger. Such schemes create nonstandard kink points, which allow for eliciting evasion responses to switches between profit and turnover taxes using a bunching approach. Using administrative data on corporations in Pakistan, we estimate tha…
Information Frictions and Adverse Selection
Despite evidence that many consumers in health insurance markets are subject to information frictions, approaches used to evaluate these markets typically assume informed, active consumers. We develop a general framework to study insurance market equilibrium in the presence of choice frictions and evaluate key policy interventions. We identify sufficient relationships between the underlying distributions of consumer costs, surplus from risk prote…
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium
We study the impact of simplification, deterrence, and tax morale on tax compliance. We ran four natural field experiments varying the communication of the tax administration with the universe of income taxpayers in Belgium throughout the tax process. A consistent picture emerges across experiments: (i) simplifying communication substantially increases compliance, (ii) deterrence messages have an additional positive effect, (iii) invoking tax mor…
Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences Using Choice from Insurance Menus
Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high-risk. We show how to separately identify risk preferences and risk types using only choices from menus of insurance plans. Our revealed preference approach does not rely on rational expectations, nor does it require access to claims data. We show what can be learned non-parametrically about the type distributions from variation in insurance plans, offered separately to random cross-…
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09505-7
The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment
Economics (7 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Actuarial science (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Global Health Care Issues (2 works)