exogenous yet nondeceptive signals about key inputs for their evasion decisions, such as audit probabilities and penalty rates … significant effect on tax compliance but in a manner that was inconsistent with Allingham and Sandmo (1972). Our findings are …

enforcement regimes play an important role in shaping both baseline compliance rates and the response of compliance to increases …A holistic assessment of the labor market effects of minimum wage regulation requires understanding employer compliance … strength of enforcement regimes affect the prevalence of subminimum wage payments. We find strong evidence that higher minimum …

little public enforcement? This paper argues that this is partly because of a lack of an autonomous and professional … internalize the social benefits of enforcement (such as formal job creation and enhancement of the rule of law) because they take …

government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the effectiveness of deterrence (enforcement … potential mechanisms through which these letters may affect fine compliance and present results from a natural field experiment … enforcement letter is stronger than that of the social norms letter. Our analysis of heterogenous treatment effects indicates that …

This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using … a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and … punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on smuggling prices is small. Though enforcement has more than …

quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain …. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by the pushers' profit targeting behavior. Given that enforcement shocks …

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …-term effects of enforcement. A simpler demand-side information campaign generates two-thirds of the gains compared to the most …