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Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information

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We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to en- force 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.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: NRN Working Paper, NRN: The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State ; No. 0923

Classification: Wirtschaft
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Field Experiments

Subject: Field experiments
law enforcement
compliance
deterrence

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Fellner, Gerlinde
Sausgruber, Rupert
Traxler, Christian

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State

(where): Linz

(when): 2009

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/115039

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Fellner, Gerlinde
Sausgruber, Rupert
Traxler, Christian
Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State

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2009

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