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Salience of law enforcement: A field experiment
Affiliation:1. Department of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute, the Netherlands;2. CESifo, IZA., Germany;3. Tilburg University, CentER, the Netherlands;1. Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Wesley Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA;2. School of Economics, University of Queensland, Colin Clark Building, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia;1. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, 2200 Symons Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA;2. NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 166 Water Street, MB 19, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA;1. Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St, Golden CO, 80401, United States;2. University of California, San Diego and NBER, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla CA, 92093-0519, USA;1. School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia;2. Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, United States;3. School of Economics and Center for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED), Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia;1. Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA;2. Department of Economics, University of Alaska-Anchorage, USA;3. Institute for State Economy, Nankai University, China;4. School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
Abstract: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 mid-sized 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.
Keywords:Law enforcement  Deterrence  Perception  Salience  Disorder  C93  K42
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