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The deterrent effects of the penalty points system for driving offences : a regression discontinuity approach

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The effect of inspector group size and familiarity on enforcement and deterrence

Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - 2013

The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...

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Legal uncertainty as a welfare enhancing screen

Lang, Matthias - 2016

threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in …

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Crime and (a preference for) punishment : the effects of drug policy reform on policing activity

Soliman, Adam - 2021

am able to shed light on enforcement behavior. I find that in parts of a city where drug penalties were weakened, there … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and … punishment and suggests that certain types enforcement can be reduced without incurring large public safety costs …

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