BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221018T1135Z-1666107354.081-EO-457823-1@10.73.2.169 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T101752Z CREATED:20221003T155732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T141729Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T150000 SUMMARY: Harvard Empirical Legal Studies Series feat. Tom Zur DESCRIPTION: The law and economics literature on specific deterrence has lo ng theorized that offenders rationally learn from being caught and sanction ed. This paper presents evidence from a randomized controlled trial showing that offenders learn differently when not being caught as compared to bein g caught\, which we call a “non-occurrence bias.” This implies that the soc ially optimal […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The law and economics literature on specif ic deterrence has long theorized that offenders rationally learn from being caught and sanctioned. This paper presents evidence from a randomized cont rolled trial showing that offenders learn differently when not being caught as compared to being caught\, which we call a “non-occurrence bias.” This implies that the socially optimal level of investment in law enforcement sh ould be lower than stipulated by rational choice theory\, even on grounds o f deterrence alone.
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