Salience and Timely Compliance: Evidence from Speeding Tickets
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11220%2F22%3A10443463" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11220/22:10443463 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qgEhm0ZIMO" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qgEhm0ZIMO</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.22387" target="_blank" >10.1002/pam.22387</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Salience and Timely Compliance: Evidence from Speeding Tickets
Original language description
This paper studies the enforcement of fines, and, in particular, the effects of simplification and salience nudges on timely payments. In a randomized controlled trial, we add cover letters to 80,000 payment notifications for speeding. The letters increase the salience of the payment deadline, the late penalty, or both. Emphasizing only the deadline is not effective. Stressing the late penalty significantly and persistently increases payment rates. The effect is largest if both parameters are made salient. The most effective treatment yields a net revenue gain that covers approximately 25 percent of the labor costs of the ticket administration personnel. A survey experiment documents how the salience nudges alter prior (mis)perceptions about the communicated parameters. The survey results rationalize the differential effects of the treatments and, together with the evidence from the RCT, offer a broader framework for explaining why certain nudges are effective in some contexts but fail in others. (c) 2022 The Authors. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Association for Public Policy and Management.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
ISSN
0276-8739
e-ISSN
1520-6688
Volume of the periodical
41
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
426-449
UT code for WoS article
000773534600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85126475810