Jung, Juergen; Makowsky, Michael - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 45 (2014) 1, pp. 1-33
We explore the determinants of inspection outcomes across 1.6 million Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) audits from 1990 through 2010. We find that discretion in enforcement differs in state and federally conducted inspections. State agencies are more sensitive to local economic...
