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AbstractWe analyze experimental data to assess whether the deterrent effect of expected fines depends on who receives the fines' proceeds. We compare behavior in treatments when the revenue is a reward for enforcement agents to the alternative when fines are transferred to society at large. Most important, with a fixed detection probability, potential offenders' material incentives are held constant across treatments. Our evidence suggests that the deterrent effect of expected fines is greater when enforcement agents obtain the fine revenue. Our results also document that the characteristics of enforcers who are willing to incur private costs to create a positive detection probability seem to depend on whether fines reward enforcers or are transferred to society at large.

Die Autoren haben die Auswirkungen eines beschränkten Verbots von Alkoholverkäufen zwischen 22 und 5 Uhr auf Gewalttaten analysiert. Das Verbot galt in Baden-Württemberg von 2010 bis 2017. Es führte dazu, dass Körperverletzungen abnahmen, hatte aber keinen signifikanten Einfl uss auf Sexualstraftaten und Raub. Der Rückgang von Körperverletzungen steht im Gegensatz zu den Ergebnissen einer früheren Evaluation der Landesregierung. Unsere Analyse deutet darauf hin, dass die Landesregierung ein Gesetz abgeschafft hat, obwohl die erwünschten Wirkungen eingetreten sind. ; The authors report results of a study that analyses the effects of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on recorded violent crime incidents. The ban was in effect from 2010 to 2017 in the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. The alcohol availability policy reduced both late-night simple and aggravated assault, but had no signifi cant effect on late-night rape or late-night robbery incidences. The recorded decrease in the count for simple and aggravated assault contrasts with the results in an earlier evaluation by the state. When seen together with evidence on health effects and police reports, all data suggests that the state government abolished a regulation that was effective at meeting the aforementioned targets.