Monica Singhal
Monica Singhal is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Her fields of interest include public finance and labor economics. Her current research focuses on behavioral responses to taxation and the determinants of local public spending patterns. She is the recipient of the 2005 National Tax Association Outstanding Dissertation Award. She received a BA and PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Content by Monica Singhal
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Publication - Project Report
In-kind transfers as insurance
5 Oct 2017 | Lucie Gadenne, Sam Norris, Monica Singhal, Sandip Sukhtankar
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Publication - Project Report
Pilot study on effect of political influence on tax payment compliance
27 Jun 2017 | Adnan Khan, Asim Khwaja, Monica Singhal
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Project
The importance of firm networks: Methods and evidence from transaction-level administrative data
How does the success or failure of one firm depend on its business linkages to other firms? Questions about firm-to-firm economic interactions are largely open because reliable and representative micro-data on firm transactions is hard to come by. We can shine some light on this problem by relying on a novel administrative data set of firm-to-firm transactions in Ecuador....
23 Mar 2017 | Paul Carrillo, Dave Donaldson, Dina D. Pomeranz, Monica Singhal
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Project
Pilot study on effect of political influence connections on tax payment compliance
Limits to fiscal capacity are a major constraint on growth in developing economies. This pilot was conducted as a collection of multiple, parallel scoping exercises that explored the viability of using different data streams to answer the question of whether and to what extent connections with influential people in political, military or bureaucratic circles impact...
7 Apr 2016 | Asim Khwaja, Monica Singhal, Adnan Khan
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Project
Price risk and poverty
A common feature of markets in many developing economies is a lack of integration. Trade across areas may be hindered by high transportation costs, limited information and communication, and policies that create barriers to trade. As a result, there is substantial variation in prices for basic commodities across space, often even within local geographic areas. Lack of...
14 Mar 2016 | Sandip Sukhtankar, Lucie Gadenne, Monica Singhal
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Project
Incidence and efficiency of commodity taxes in developing economies: Evidence from India
A large literature has examined how government programmes, such as spending on health and education, affect poor households in developing countries. There has been much less research on the impacts of the revenue-generating activities of governments on households. While poor households in developing countries generally fall below income tax thresholds, they are subject to...
10 Apr 2015 | Monica Singhal, Lucie Gadenne, Sam Norris
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Project
Commodity Taxation in India
India’s system of indirect taxation is notoriously fragmented. Since independence, the sales tax has grown to become the most important source of State financing, in part because it is the only major source of tax revenue constitutionally controlled by the States. At the same time, systems in different States have diverged to a great extent in scope, complexity, and...
17 Nov 2014 | Monica Singhal
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Publication - Working Paper
Improving Tax Compliance in Developing Economies: Evidence from Bangladesh (Working Paper)
9 Oct 2014 | Nasiruddin Ahmed, Raj Chetty, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Aminur Rahman, Monica Singhal
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Project
Taxpayer recognition programme
Researchers implemented a range of programmes to exploit firms’ interest in social recognition to increase VAT compliance. Exposing information about firms’ tax compliance to their peers can increase tax payment in a cost-effective way. After receiving information about the tax payment status of neighbouring firms, firms in high-compliance areas...
4 Sep 2014 | Nasiruddin Ahmed, Raj Chetty, Ghulam Hossain, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Aminur Rahman, Monica Singhal
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Publication - Policy Brief
Increasing Tax Compliance through Social Recognition (Policy Brief)
1 Aug 2014 | Raj Chetty, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Monica Singhal
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Publication - Working Paper
Rates, Redistribution and the GST (Working Paper)
1 Mar 2013 | Monica Singhal
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Publication - Working Paper
Distribution of the Commodity Tax Burden in Bihar, 1994-2010 (Working Paper)
1 Mar 2013 | Monica Singhal
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Publication - Working Paper
Commodity Taxation in Bihar, 1994-2012 (Working Paper)
1 Mar 2013 | Monica Singhal
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Publication - Policy Brief
Improving Tax Compliance in Developing Economies: Evidence from Bangladesh (Policy Brief)
1 Dec 2012 | Nasiruddin Ahmed, Raj Chetty, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Aminur Rahman, Monica Singhal
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Publication - Working Paper
Improving Tax Compliance in Developing Economies: Evidence from Bangladesh
1 Dec 2012 | Nasiruddin Ahmed, Raj Chetty, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Aminur Rahman, Monica Singhal