caa a22 4500 510740146 CHVBK 20180915134806.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12122-013-9169-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12122-013-9169-x Theft and Deterrence [Elektronische Daten] [William Harbaugh, Naci Mocan, Michael Visser] We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of detection. We find that the probability of stealing is increasing in the amount of money that can be stolen, and that it is decreasing in the probability of getting caught and in the penalty for getting caught. Furthermore, the impact of the certainty of getting caught is larger when the penalty is bigger, and the impact of the penalty is bigger when the probability of getting caught is larger. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Experiments nationallicence Crime nationallicence Larceny nationallicence Theft nationallicence Deterrence nationallicence Penalty nationallicence Rationality nationallicence Harbaugh William University of Oregon, 97403-1285, Eugene, OR, USA aut Mocan Naci Department of Economics, Louisiana State University and NBER, 3039 Business Education Complex, 70803, Baton Rouge, LA, USA aut Visser Michael Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati Ave., 94928, Rohnert Park, CA, USA aut Journal of Labor Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/4(2013-12-01), 389-407 0195-3613 34:4<389 2013 34 12122 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-013-9169-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-013-9169-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Harbaugh William University of Oregon, 97403-1285, Eugene, OR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mocan Naci Department of Economics, Louisiana State University and NBER, 3039 Business Education Complex, 70803, Baton Rouge, LA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Visser Michael Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati Ave., 94928, Rohnert Park, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Labor Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/4(2013-12-01), 389-407 0195-3613 34:4<389 2013 34 12122 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 510740146 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer