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environment where police officers are heterogenous in their tastes for discrimination and in their costs of search and motorists …
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antidiscrimination law across a variety of contexts including discrimination in labor markets, housing markets, consumer purchases, and … policing. The different models of discrimination based on animus, statistical discrimination, and cartel exploitation are … analyzed for both race and sex discrimination. I explore the theoretical arguments for prohibiting private discriminatory …
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Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender …). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct … of generalized workplace discrimination that clarifies the overlap among different types of discriminatory experiences …
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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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Local governments suspected of Mafia infiltration can be dismissed in Italy through an administrative act not increasing formal deterrence but potentially signaling improved law enforcement among local communities. This paper finds that dismissals are associated to a persistent fall of petty...
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I describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime. I investigate the effect of shifts in legal authorities' surveillance by focusing on junkyards, firms often associated with illegal markets and auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities...
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In many developing and emerging economies, frequent power outages are often a consequence of electricity rationing, stemming from the insufficient generation capacity to meet peak demand. In an effort to minimize the disruption caused by sudden power outages, utilities often implement scheduled...
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We study the consequences of leniency - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is known that leniency helps deterring illegal...
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The use of a taser by law enforcement can substitute for either a gun (a more-violent technology) or a mildly-violent technology (such as pepper spray or hands-on tactics). Which is used affects both the severity of harm when used and the amount of resistance, which affects how often it must be...
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This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ("zero-tolerance") may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
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