2019
Salience of law enforcement: A field experiment
Publication
Publication
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , Volume 93 p. 208- 220
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a midsized city, law enforcement officers supplemented their regular enforcement activities by the practice of putting brightly-colored warning labels on illegally disposed garbage bags. This treatment made the existing enforcement activities suddenly much more apparent to residents. We find evidence for a substantial reduction in illegal disposal of garbage in response to the treatment.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2018.11.011, hdl.handle.net/1765/115704 | |
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | |
Organisation | Erasmus School of Economics |
Dur, R., & Vollaard, B. (2019). Salience of law enforcement: A field experiment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 93, 208–220. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2018.11.011 |