We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law …. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of …

rational crime by signals of disorder, local social control, and their interaction. Testing our implications we present results … from three field experiments showing that violations of norms, which prevent physical as well as social disorder, foster … further violations of the same and of different norms. Varying the net gains from deviance it shows that disorder effects are …

study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This …

in the literature, we conduct a field experiment on firm tax compliance looking at newly founded firms. As a novelty we …

in the literature, we conduct a field experiment on firm tax compliance looking at newly founded firms. As a novelty we …

We conduct a field experiment on tax compliance, focusing on newly founded firms. As a novelty the effect of tax …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …

recommendations is highly debatable. We investigate the external validity of a framed field experiment that mimics coca cultivation … and find evidence that behavior in the experiment is consistent with self-reported behavior. We use the experiment to … discuss the effectiveness of carrot and stick policies on coca investments. The experiment indicates that subjects are more …

Colombia. To measure behavioral responses to anti-drug policies, we conducted a framed field experiment with farmers living in …

I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction … sensitivity and belief. I found supporting evidence of changes in belief. My experiment is novel in that it develops an approach …