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Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019 - This version: December 2019

police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and …

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Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behavior

Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2011

Understanding the reasons why individuals take risks, particularly unnecessary risks, remains an important question in economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300,000 Americans, we demonstrate that happier individuals...

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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021

Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....

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The cost of binge drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2015

of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …

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Is it the gums, teeth or the bite? : effectiveness of dimensions of enforcement in curbing corruption

Capasso, Salvatore; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2018

corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …

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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …

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Collective bargaining and police misconduct : evidence from Florida

Dharmapala, Dhammika; McAdams, Richard H.; Rappaport, John - 2019 - This version: May 2019

agencies between 1996 and 2015, we implement a difference-in-difference approach in which police departments (which were … rights led to a substantial increase in violent incidents of misconduct among SOs, relative to police departments. The effect …

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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents

Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the probability and the severity of punishment with reference to planned criminal activities. There are, however, also unplanned crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious...

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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force

Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …

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Preponderance of evidence

Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - 2002

This paper analyzes the incentive properties of the standard and burden of proof for a finding of negligence, when evidence is imperfect and rests with the parties. We show that the preponderance of evidence' standard provides maximal incentives to exert care. This holds even though litigants...

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