TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Leong, Kaiwen
AU  - Li, Huailu
AU  - Xu, Haibo
        TI  - Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang
        PY  - 2019/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12083
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12083
        AB  - We study a Singaporean drug-selling gang's dataset and empirically find that the gang's pushers purchased larger quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by the pushers' profit targeting behavior. Given that enforcement shocks increased the pushers' cost of drugs, pushers must compensate by purchasing more drugs to sell in order to reach their profit targets.
        KW  - crime
KW  - enforcement
KW  - labor supply
        ER  -