Arbeitspapier
Testing enforcement strategies in the field: legal threat, moral appeal and social information
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a high detection risk has a significant and highly robust deterrent effect. Neither appealing to morals nor imparting information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities where evasion is believed to be common. Overall, the economic model of crime performs remarkably well in explaining our data.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2009,31
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Field Experiments
- Thema
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Field experiments
law enforcement
compliance
deterrence
Rechtsdurchsetzung
Normbefolgung
Feldforschung
Rundfunkfinanzierung
Schuldrecht
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fellner, Gerlinde
Sausgruber, Rupert
Traxler, Christian
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Fellner, Gerlinde
- Sausgruber, Rupert
- Traxler, Christian
- Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Entstanden
- 2009
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