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Swiftness and delay of punishment
Dušek, Libor; Traxler, Christian - 2024
This paper studies how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behavior. Using rich administrative data from automated speed cameras, we exploit two (quasi-)experimental sources of variation in the time between a speeding offense and the sending of a ticket. At the launch of the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014457716
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Swiftness and delay of punishment
Dušek, Libor; Traxler, Christian - 2024
This paper studies how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behavior. Using rich administrative data from automated speed cameras, we exploit two (quasi-)experimental sources of variation in the time between a speeding offense and the sending of a ticket. At the launch of the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464145
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Poverty and crime in 19th century Germany: A reassessment
Traxler, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - 2010
effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286684
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Poverty and crime in 19th century Germany : a reassessment
Traxler, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - 2010
effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662611
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Poverty and Crime in 19th Century Germany : A Reassessment
Traxler, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - 2010
effect of poverty on crime in 19th century Germany. In addition, our data set allows us to make several original … contributions to the literature. We confirm the robust positive effect of poverty on property crime. Employing the rye price as a … al., we also find a strong negative impact of poverty on violent crime. However, once we account for beer consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192019
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008657598
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
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 … where evasion is believed to be common. Overall, the economic model of crime performs remarkably well in explaining our data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009735335
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
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 … where evasion is believed to be common. Overall, the economic model of crime performs remarkably well in explaining our data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887177
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to en- force 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 … where evasion is believed to be common. Overall, the economic model of crime performs remarkably well in explaining our data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343916
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Swiftness and Delay of Punishment
Dušek, Libor; Traxler, Christian - 2024
This paper studies how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behavior. Using rich administrative data from automated speed cameras, we exploit two (quasi-)experimental sources of variation in the time between a speeding offense and the sending of a ticket. At the launch of the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534394