regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics, inequity aversion, to offer an explanation. This theory could also …

In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …

In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …