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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory

Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …. This interdependency is important since, in the case of legal uncertainty, higher fines may reduce the willingness to …

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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence

Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - 2013

The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...

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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017

recidivating within a year by 20 percent. This is largely a specific deterrence effect driven by the punishment itself and not by …

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Police Patrols and Crime

Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2018

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that...

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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods

DeAngelo, Gregory; Gee, Laura Katherine - 2018

Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of sanctions imposed, but this research almost always...

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Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment

Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - 2018

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a mid-sized city, law enforcement...

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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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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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Mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: What do we know about them?

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010

This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...

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Theft and deterrence

Harbaugh, William T.; Mocan, Naci; Visser, Michael S. - 2011

We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...

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