Research Project: EGAP-METAKETA

Business informality may not only impede the growth of small firms but might also lead to long-term undercoverage of social security, as informal microentrepreneurs typically do not make any social security contributions. As part of egap´s Metaketa II: Taxation initiative I am currently running a multi-arm field experiment. The study evaluates a series of interventions that facilitates the take-up of the formalization program and encourages payment of monthly contributions by microentrepreneurs in Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro. These interventions are aimed at evaluating the relative effectiveness of information campaigns, reminders, interaction through social networks and perception of political endorsement of the formalization program.  more