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Punishing Free-Riders : How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2004

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is … rates no lower than small groups because punishment does not fall appreciably in large groups. However, hindrances to …

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Hooliganism and police tactics: should tear gas make crime preventers cry?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007

Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an increase in discriminative policing, provided by...

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Prison conditions and recidivism

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - 2008

We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...

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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? Evidence from Germany

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2008

, imprisonment) and severity (length of prison sentence, size of fine) of punishment are often small and insignificant. …

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Delinquent networks

Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2009

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...

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Sentence reductions and recidivism: lessons from the Bastille Day quasi experiment

Maurin, Eric; Ouss, Aurelie - 2009

This paper exploits the collective pardon granted to individuals incarcerated in French prisons on the 14th of July, 1996 (Bastille Day) to identify the effect of collective sentence reductions on recidivism. The collective pardon generated a very significant discontinuity in the relationship...

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Partially identified treatment effects under imperfect compliance: the case of domestic violence

Siddique, Zahra - 2009

During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was carried out in 1981. This paper re-examines the data...

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Crime, prosecutors, and the certainty of conviction

Entorf, Horst - 2011

conviction play a major role in explaining the variation of crime rates, while the impact of the severity of punishment is small …

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The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2013

We investigate one possible explanation for observed rates of corrupt behavior namely that individual decision makers who frequently engage in illegal actions may underestimate the overall probability of being caught. This might in particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of...

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