Abstract This paper studies how punishment affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving histories of more than a million cars over several years, we evaluate responses to at extensive (receiving speeding ticket) intensive margins (tickets with higher fines). Two complementary e...

Wildland arson makes up the majority of fire starts in some parts of the United States and is the second leading cause of fires on Eastern United States Federal forests. Individual arson fires can cause damages to resources and communities totaling over a hundred million dollars. Recent research has uncovered the temporal and spatial patterns of arson fires and their longand short-term drivers....

Over the past several years, numerous essays have examined the deterrent effects of aggressive police patrol strategies like traffic law enforcement (Jacob and Rich, 1981; Sampson and Cohen, 1988; Wilson and Boland, 1978, 1981). This essay continues this line of research. It reports on the results of a field experiment in Dayton, Ohio, designed to measure the effects of traffic law enforcement ...

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey do not collect information about crimes committed against persons under 12 years of age and thus do not provide a comprehensive picture of juvenile crime victimization. Designed to replace UCR as the national database for crimes reported to law enforcement, the FBI’s National...