Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …

opportunities will deter them from crime and violence. Rigorous evidence is rare. We experimentally evaluate a program of …

in risk-taking, comparing the professional context of academia to a private setting. We draw on identity economics, which … posits that individuals form multiple identities that moderate behavior across contexts. In an online field experiment with … 474 scientists we vary the salience of the professional or private identity. We find that the gender gap in risk-taking is …

also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a … non-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a natural field experiment (n>1 …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …

also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non …-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a field experiment (n>1,700 participants), we vary the … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team …

Many individuals who were previously incarcerated are re-arrested in the months and years following release from prison … in our field experiment are offered a monetary incentive to complete either three or five visits to a support service …

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law …

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making …

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making …

We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study … attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the … fare-dodgers, except when context is introduced. Overall, we show that simple tests of dishonesty in the lab can predict …