We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

automated speed cameras, we exploit two (quasi-)experimental sources of variation in the time between a speeding offense and the … scholars that we elicited in a survey. Second, speeding tickets cause a strong, immediate, and persistent decline in speeding …. However, we do not detect any robust, differential effects of swiftness or delay on speeding. This challenges widely held …

corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … enforcement (conviction rates) and enforcing institutions. Results based on data for more than 80 countries show that piecemeal …

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement … proposed rule change could increase the efficiency and effectiveness of cartel enforcement, and open an additional front in the …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …

The deterrent effect of law enforcement rests on the link between the actual and the perceived detection risk. We study … allowing us to distinguish between households who have been subject to enforcement and those who have not. Exploiting local … variation in field inspectors' efforts induced by snowfall, we find a striking response of households to increased enforcement …

where evasion is believed to be common. Overall, the economic model of crime performs remarkably well in explaining our data. …

million cars over several years, we evaluate responses to punishment at the extensive (receiving a speeding ticket) and … event study - coherently document strong responses to receiving a ticket: the speeding rate drops by a third and re … over time, with no 'backsliding' towards speeding even two years after receiving a ticket. Our evidence rejects unlearning …

campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of … police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and … more slowly and responsibly on SLMO days to avoid fines; providing information on the dangers of speeding does not alter …