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Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others’ behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583665
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Salience of law enforcement : a field experiment
Dur, Robert A. J.; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2018
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a mid-sized city, law enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880616
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Social norms or enforcement? : a natural field experiment to improve traffic and parking fine compliance
Sinning, Mathias; Zhang, Yinjunjie - 2021
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 … potential mechanisms through which these letters may affect fine compliance and present results from a natural field experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494872
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Salience of Law Enforcement : A Field Experiment
Dur, Robert - 2017
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making law enforcement activities more salient. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a city in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953699
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Deterrence through Word of Mouth
Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009
the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees … in their vicinity, with compliance rising significantly among those who had no interaction with inspectors. As we can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094256
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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures
Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2018
Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform substantially reduced the number of police stations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916830
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The effect of inspector group size and familiarity on enforcement and deterrence
Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Staubli, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A. - 2013
The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...
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Do police make too many arrests? : the effect of enforcement pullbacks on crime
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - 2021
Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause significant short-term reductions in all arrest types, with the...
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The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence : theory and evidence from the laboratory
Feess, Eberhard; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schramm, … - 2015
of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …
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Weberian civil service and labor enforcement
Dewey, Matías; Ronconi, Lucas - 2023
Most workers in the developing world do not receive the benefits they are legally entitled to. Why, then, is there so little public enforcement? This paper argues that this is partly because of a lack of an autonomous and professional bureaucracy. Using a novel dataset with objective measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311683