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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as … enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation based on the idea that justice can be subverted with sufficient expenditure … environment of significant inequality of wealth and political power. The switch to regulation can then be seen as an efficient …

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Slippery Fish : Enforcing Regulation when Agents Learn and Adapt

Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Attempts to curb undesired behavior through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …

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A Cognitive View of Policing

Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...

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Police Discretion and Public Safety

Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Mello, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over fines by deviating from statutory fine rules. Relying on variation across officers in this discretionary behavior, we find that harsher sanctions reduce future traffic offending and...

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The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates : Evidence from Randomized Tax Abatements in the DRC

Bergeron, Augustin; Tourek, Gabriel Z.; Weigel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper investigates how tax rates and tax enforcement jointly impact fiscal capacity in low-income countries. We study a policy experiment in the D.R. Congo that randomly assigned 38,028 property owners to the status quo tax rate or to a rate reduction. This variation in tax liabilities...

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Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrols : Experimental Evidence from Urban India

Amaral, Sofia; Borker, Girija; Fiala, Nathan; Kumar, Anjani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an innovative police patrol program on sexual harassment in public spaces in Hyderabad, India. In collaboration with the Hyderabad City Police, we randomized both exposure to police patrols and the visibility of officers by...

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Algorithmic Recommendations and Human Discretion

Angelova, Victoria; Dobbie, Will; Yang, Crystal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Human decision-makers frequently override the recommendations generated by predictive algorithms, but it is unclear whether these discretionary overrides add valuable private information or reintroduce human biases and mistakes. We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure the impact of...

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The Relationship between Officer Misconduct and Conviction-less Arrests

Ba, Bocar A.; Rim, Nayoung; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Given the use of an individual's arrest history for many economic and social outcomes, reducing conviction-less arrests (arrests that result in no charges or where the defendant is found not guilty) is an important policy goal. This paper examines which officers are making conviction-less...

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How Law and Institutions Shape Financial Contracts : The Case of Bank Loans

Qian, Jun - 2005

We examine empirically how legal origin, creditor rights, property rights, legal formalism, and financial development affect the design of price and non-price terms of bank loans in almost 60 countries. Our results support the law and finance view that private contracts reflect differences in...

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Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement : Vehicle Searches in Wichita

Persico, Nicola - 2004

This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of motor vehicles. It shows that the test proposed in Knowles, Persico and Todd (2001) can also be applied in a more general environment where police officers are heterogenous in...

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