Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
The need for prospective beneficiaries to “take up” new programs is a common stumbling block for otherwise well-designed legal and policy innovations. I examine the take-up problem in the context of publicly provided court services and test the effectiveness of various outreach strategies that announce a newly available online court access platform. I study individuals with minor arrest warrants whose distrust of courts may dampen any take-up response. I partnered with a court to quasi-randomly assign outreach approaches to a cohort of individuals and find that outreach improves take-up, that the type of outreach matters, and that online platform access is itself effective.
Recommended Citation
Prescott, James J. "Assessing Access-to-Justice Outreach Strategies." J. Inst. & Theoretical Econ. 174, no. 1 (2018): 34-63.
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Courts Commons, Science and Technology Law Commons, State and Local Government Law Commons
Comments
Posted with the permission of Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG. Originally published by the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.