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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas

Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - 2021

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …

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Theft and Deterrence

Harbaugh, William - 2011

We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...

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Punishment and Deterrence : Evidence from Drunk Driving

Hansen, Benjamin - 2014

Traditional economic models of criminal behavior have straightforward predictions: raising the expected cost of crime via apprehension probabilities or punishments decreases crime. I test the effect of harsher punishments on deterring driving under the influence (DUI). In this setting,...

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Games and Resources

Harstad, Bård - 2012

This article presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic,...

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Comparing Apples to Oranges : Differences in Women's and Men's Incarceration and Sentencing Outcomes

Butcher, Kristin F. - 2017

Using detailed administrative records, we find that, on average, women receive lighter sentences in comparison with men along both extensive and intensive margins. Using parametric and semi-parametric decomposition methods, roughly 30% of the gender differences in incarceration cannot be...

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Is Pollution Value-Maximizing? The Dupont Case

Shapira, Roy - 2017

DuPont, one of the most respectable U.S. companies, caused environmental damage that ended up costing the company around a billion dollars. By using internal company documents disclosed in trials we rule out the possibilities that this bad outcome was due to ignorance, an unexpected realization,...

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Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult Crime : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness

Eren, Ozkan - 2017

This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile punishment on adult criminal recidivism and high school … to utilize information on the exact types of crimes committed, as well as the type and duration of punishment imposed …

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How Common are Electoral Cycles in Criminal Sentencing?

Dippel, Christian - 2019

Existing research on electoral sentencing cycles shows that elected judges levy longer sentences when they are up for re-election. Using newly collected sentencing data including a number of states not previously studied, we find that elected judges in several states do not appear to change...

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The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment

Polinsky, Alan Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - 2021

This paper examines the use of fines and imprisonment to deter individuals from engaging in harmful activities. These sanctions are analyzed separately as well as together, first for identical risk-neutral individuals and then for two groups of risk-neutral individuals who differ by wealth. When...

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Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law

Shavell, Steven - 2021

This paper contains a chapter on the general structure of the law from a forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). In this chapter, I consider basic features of the legal system, including whether the law directly constrains behavior or channels...

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