Publication: From taxation to fighting for the nation: historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI
From taxation to fighting for the nation: historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI
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Bagnato, L. (2024). From taxation to fighting for the nation: historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI (No. 423; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).
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Do strong states affect the culture and actions of their citizens in a persistent way? And if so, can the capacity to tax, by itself, drive this effect? I study how the historical capacity of a state to collect taxes affects the decision of citizens to evade the mandatory military draft. I look at Italy during World War I and identify quasi-exogenous variation in tax collection induced by the administrative structure of Piedmont during the 1814-1870 period. Using newly collected individual data on the universe of the 1899 cohort draft
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Bagnato, L. (2024). From taxation to fighting for the nation: historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI (No. 423; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).
