success of the program, i.e., whether burglaries continue to occur. We show that the punishment of burglars plays a dual role … in this context. On the one hand, punishment deters burglaries if the level of punishment is sufficiently high. On the … punishment is suboptimal. In a second part, we extend our model to the study of norm enforcement in public goods dilemmas and …

Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated … activities can crowd out motivation to perform these activities. More recent work highlights nuanced and important features … related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is likely to occur. In many cases, incentives succeed in encouraging more …