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Thanks to Ebonya Washington, Akpan Ekpo, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, James Fenske, Isaiah Andrews, Steve Nafziger, Agatha Archibong, Leonard Wantchekon, Jim Poterba, Gary Hoover, Sandy Darity, Francis Annan, Bill Spriggs, Kate Casey, Pascaline Dupas, Saumitra Jha, Carol Graham, Carlo Prato, Elias Papaioannou, anonymous referees at ICTD and Brookings, and participants at the Nigerian Tax Research Network and CSEA workshops, and the AEHN, EHDR, CSAE and DITE conferences and Columbia, Stanford, London Business School and Manhattan College seminars for useful comments and suggestions. Thanks to the Gates Foundation and the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) for funding this research. All errors are our own. The authors declare that they have no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.