TY - JOUR A1 - Drago, Francesco A1 - Mengel, Friederike A1 - Traxler, Christian T1 - Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment JF - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics N2 - This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks in Austria. We exploit a field experiment that varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. The data reveal a strong treatment spillover: untreated households are more likely to switch from evasion to compliance in response to mailings received by their network neighbors. Digging deeper into the properties of the spillover, we find that it is concentrated among close neighbors of the targets and increases with the treated households' diffusion centrality. Local concentration of equally treated households implies a lower spillover. KW - Economics KW - Consumer Economics KW - Economic Sociology Y1 - 2020 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-33890 SN - 1945-7782 (Print) / 1945-7790 (Online) N1 - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. The final authenticated version is available online at DOI: 10.1257/app.20170690 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 96 EP - 133 ER -