for police unions provides a unique opportunity to examine these theories, as the police officers either receive their … requested wage or receive a lower one. In the months after New Jersey police officers lose in arbitration, arrest rates and … wage is further from the police union's demand. The findings support the idea that considerations of fairness …

police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by … reducing arrest frequency but increasing arrest quality. Days in which an officer works a second job after their police shift …

level of motivation to read. Elementary school students were mailed books weekly during the summer, mailed books and also …

experts like community organizers and police experts, who link the market responses to reforms, not budget cuts. An experiment …Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the … protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated …

The standard economic model of police stops implies that the contraband hit rate should rise when the number of stops … or searches per officer falls, ceteris paribus. We provide empirical corroboration of such optimizing models of police … explanations, including changes in street population, crime, police allocation, and policing intensity. We find mixed evidence …

improve interactions with the public. In a sample of 162 police stations serving almost 8 million people, the first experiment … a second experiment that provided explicit incentives to police officers to carry out sobriety traffic checkpoints and …-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and …

controlled experiment, where individuals are randomized to different work locations (remote or an office-like setting), we … increases. These results are driven predominantly by those who are relatively less productive as individuals. Post-experiment …

We conduct an interactive online experiment framed as an employment contract between employer and worker. Subjects from … by conditional reciprocity or by intrinsic motivation. Subjects from India and Africa are more likely to follow intrinsic … motivation and they provide high effort more often. US subjects are more likely to follow self-interest and reach a less …