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welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger about free-riding. If this is the case, then tools that regulate …
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individual's likelihood of sending costly peer punishment is examined. Actigraphy sleep monitoring watches are used to validate …-parametric as well as regression analysis, we find that when punishment is not available, sleep restriction does not affect the … contributions made to joint production. When punishment is available, we find weak evidence that SR subjects contribute more than WR …
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Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of sanctions imposed, but this research almost always...
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We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
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This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … contribute more unequally. Contingent punishment strategies are found to increase with decreasing contributions by the target …
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This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using … variety of research designs are used to isolate the effect of the juvenile punishment and to control for observable … characteristics of the young offenders. The juvenile punishment experiment was initially conducted in certain criminal courts only and …
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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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This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
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pressure can increase rates of punishment. We discuss our results with respect to findings in the lab on cognitive models of …
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of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … hypotheses derived from the theory …
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