study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either … face potential punishment when stealing, or they can steal without deterrence. We confirm Gary Becker’s deterrence …Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison …

We designed a natural-field experiment in the context of local public transportation to test whether rewards in the …

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making …

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law …

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making …

experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous …

government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss … potential mechanisms through which these letters may affect fine compliance and present results from a natural field experiment …