relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large …

government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement … enforcement letter is stronger than that of the social norms letter. Our analysis of heterogenous treatment effects indicates that … long outstanding debt and those with a debt above the median. In contrast, the enforcement letter is generally effective …

insurance (UI) or welfare. For targeted policy design, it is key to understand how the enforcement regime affects job search … outcomes. This paper provides first estimates that separately identify the effects of increasing enforcement strictness in UI … elasticities to changes in enforcement strictness, trading off the short-run gains (job finding) against the mid-run costs (job …

strength of enforcement regimes affect the prevalence of subminimum wage payments. We find strong evidence that higher minimum … enforcement regimes play an important role in shaping both baseline compliance rates and the response of compliance to increases …

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …-term effects of enforcement. A simpler demand-side information campaign generates two-thirds of the gains compared to the most …

quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain …. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by the pushers' profit targeting behavior. Given that enforcement shocks …

borrowers. Higher markups discourage borrowers from repeatedly borrowing from a particular lender. Increased enforcement …

standards and enforcement among main cities in China. If other cities decrease minimum wage standards by 1 RMB, the host city …