This paper studies the enforcement of fines. We randomly assign 80,000 speeding tickets to treatments that increase the ….23 percentage point decrease in timely compliance. This semi-elasticity suggests that the impact of the salience nudges is … salience of the payment deadline, late penalties, or both. Stressing the penalties significantly and persistently increases …

Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …

Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …

Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …

Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local … government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement …) and non-deterrence (social norms) letters that aim to improve the collection of traffic and parking fines. We discuss …

costs of imposing fines; general enforcement; marginal deterrence; the principal-agent relationship; settlements; self …This chapter surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors …

We estimate the effect of the level of fines on payment compliance and revenues collected from speeding tickets …. Exploiting discontinuous increases in fines at speed cutoffs and reform induced variation in these discontinuities, we implement …