economics background. Incoming students take a voluntary microeconomics test-out at the beginning of the semester. Those that … pass the test-out are exempt from taking Microeconomics. To minimize disruption, Planning Economics is positioned as the …

or no economics background. Incoming students take a voluntary microeconomics test-out at the beginning of the semester …. Those that pass the test-out are exempt from taking Microeconomics.To minimize disruption, Planning Economics is positioned …

identified. These included concern about the strategy of the 1.1 testing strategy (i.e. conducting the equivalent of one test per … licensed driver per annum), a misunderstanding of the role of general and specific deterrence and a lack of feedback in …, misunderstanding about the role of deterrence and lack of rewards for participating in RBT duties.----- The results of both studies …

capital punishment. Particular attention is paid to problems of endogeneity bias arising from the non-random assignment of … death penalty laws across states and a simultaneous relationship between murders and the deterrence probabilities. The … structural estimates of the deterrent effect of capital punishment are likely to be downward biased due to the influence of …

Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for … arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here that enhancing the norm salience role of punishment can eliminate its …