Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282507 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10819
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
How can citizens be motivated to demand accountability in the management of public revenues? We carry out a video survey experiment among 2300 Ghanaian respondents to study the impact of information provision and encouragement messages by a politician and civil society leader on attitudes and demand for accountability in the management of petroleum revenues. We find that providing information significantly increases knowledge about current revenue management, satisfaction with the way revenues are handled and spent, and the intention to demand more accountability. The encouragement messages have an additional effect: they increase the sense that an individual can influence how petroleum revenues are used, and the intention to contact media and to vote differently to ensure better accountability. However, a follow-up survey two years later shows that these impacts do not last. The experiment suggests that providing relevant information affects attitudes and intended behavior in the short term and that role models can give valuable encouragement for behavioral change.
Subjects: 
accountability
survey experiment
video
Ghana
petroleum revenues
information treatment
JEL: 
Q35
Q38
H41
H23
D80
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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