enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool …-subject pool, police commissioners cooperate significantly more in both games. With exogenous institutions, police commissioners … bear a higher burden of punishment costs than non-police subjects. When the norm enforcement institution is endogenous, all …

effect of psychological momentum on performance. We find that men's performance is significantly affected by psychological … line with evidence in the biological literature that testosterone, which is known to enhance performance of both men and …

that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation … between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police …

wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average … length of sentences. We propose an original micro-founded police production function linking the level of police expenditures …

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas … by police officers, we first document exogenous and discontinuous changes in patrolling intensity. We do not find that …

prefer fighting certain type of crimes more intensely, rather than increasing police efficiency overall. Lastly, our results … show that the post-reform benefits we observe dissolve when the management of local police has to be coordinated among …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …

improve self-control and reduce stress. We conduct the experiment with 139 participants, half of whom receive a four …-related behaviours. We find evidence that mindfulness training reduces perceived stress, but only weak evidence on its impact on …

relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress levels after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …