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informal workers. Increasing public enforcement (e.g. inspections, fines, and workers’ access to the judiciary) can be a …
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Policymakers are increasingly interested these days in how they can achieve desired outcomes using 'nudges' - low-cost and non-obtrusive interventions which rely on psychological mechanisms, rather than high-powered economic incentives, to influence people's behaviour. This paper applies the...
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This paper studies the enforcement of fines. We randomly assign 80,000 speeding tickets to treatments that increase the … variation in fines, we then document a strong price responsiveness: a 1% increase in the payment obligation induces a 0 … equivalent to the effect of a 4-9% reduction in fines. …
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We report two studies investigating whether, and if so how, different interventions affect voter registration rates. In a natural field experiment conducted before the 2015 UK General Election, we varied messages on a postcard sent by Oxford City Council to unregistered student voters...
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-payer. I show that Basu’s (2011) proposal to lower the fines imposed on bribe-payers in order to induce more whistleblowing and … increase the probability of penalizing corrupt government officials might instead increase bribe amounts. Higher expected fines …I model the connection between the equilibrium bribe amount and the fines imposed on both bribe-taker and bribe …
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