Ramadan Spirit and Criminal Acquittals: Causal Evidence from Pakistan

• In Event: Institutional Incentives Across Regime Types

Brief Overview

More intense fasting increases acquittals. We estimate the economic losses due to unrecovered property damages resulting from more acquittal verdicts during Ramadan to be about 0.2% of GDP every year.

Author

• Sultan Mehmood, University of Paris-Dauphine