A Fine Is a Price.

Gneezy, U., & Rustichini, A. (2000). A Fine Is a Price. Journal of Legal Studies, 29(1), 1-17.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2000

DOI

10.1086/468061

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/468061

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economics_finance

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Primes

• Crowding Out
  • The introducing activity is an extrinsic incentive: a small fine for late pickup.
• Incentive
  • The prime's perverse-incentive forecasting is load-bearing: raising the fine without raising detection merely displaces dumping to harder-to-detect sites, and framing the fine as a price may signal that dumping is licit-but-priced, crowding out the civic norm.

    This sourceField experiment showing a fine for late daycare pickup raised the behavior by repricing a moral duty as a purchasable service — framing a penalty as a price crowds out the norm.

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