Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are … essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that … appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other evidence indicates that conventional economic incentives and …

Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are … essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that … appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other evidence indicates that conventional economic incentives and …

expressed. Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory (1979) explains many of these "framing" effects as shifts in the point 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 …

used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …

a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …