Replication Data for: Participation, Government Legitimacy, and Regulatory Compliance in Emerging Economies: A Firm-Level Field Experiment in Vietnam

This replication dataset set includes: 1) all experimental treatments (including scripts, surveys, movies); 2) codebooks for raw survey and cleaned data; 3) all collected datasets and clean analysis set; and 4) all replication code in the form of .do files. Abstract: This paper employs a field experiment in single-party-ruled Vietnam to test whether providing a broad-based, representative sample of firms the opportunity to comment on draft regulations increases their subsequent compliance. We find three main outcomes of this treatment. First, treated firms exhibited greater improvement in their views of government’s regulatory authority. Second, these firms were more likely to allow government-affiliated auditors to examine their factories. Third, treated firms demonstrated greater compliance on the factory floor. Access and compliance were not explained by the receipt of advance information about the regulation’s requirements, and none of the three outcomes required that firms offer substantive comments.本复现数据集包含以下内容：1）所有实验处理材料（含脚本、调查问卷、影片）；2）原始调研数据与清洗后数据的编码手册；3）全部采集所得数据集与经清理的分析数据集；4）所有以.do文件格式存储的复现代码。摘要：本文依托越南一党执政体制下的田野实验，检验为广泛且具有代表性的企业样本提供法规草案意见反馈渠道，是否会提升其后续合规表现。研究得到三项核心结论：其一，处理组企业对政府监管权威的认可度提升更为显著；其二，这些企业更愿意配合隶属于政府的审计人员对其工厂进行核查；其三，处理组企业在生产现场的合规表现更佳。研究发现，提前获取监管要求相关信息无法解释参与度与合规性的差异，且三项核心结果均不要求企业提交实质性反馈意见。