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Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others’ behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
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Salience of Law Enforcement : A Field Experiment
Dur, Robert - 2017
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making law enforcement activities more salient. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a city in the...
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Deterrence through Word of Mouth
Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009
the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees … in their vicinity, with compliance rising significantly among those who had no interaction with inspectors. As we can …
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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - CESifo - 2014
Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...
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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School
Cohn, Alain - 2017
Laboratory experiments provide insights into the drivers of cheating behaviour, but it is unclear to what extent cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three...
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Bad Boys : How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation
Cohn, Alain - 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...
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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - 2021
Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315612
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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - CESifo - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract within a firm that pays its workers piece rates. In the tree planting industry the piece rate paid to workers is determined as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be...
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A History of Violence: Field Evidence on Trauma, Discounting and Present Bias
Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A.; Mironova, Vera - CESifo - 2015
The extent to which individuals discount the future and whether they discount in a time-consistent fashion is an important determinant of their life outcomes. Using a field experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we show that direct exposure to violence substantially increases present...
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