“…The limited number of studies of the heterogeneity across inspectors' propensity to report violations has identified the importance of their tenure, training, gender, and former exposure to the establishment (Macher, Mayo, and Nickerson 2011, Short, Toffel, and Hugill 2016, Ball, Siemsen, and Shah 2017. Inspector scrutiny among third-party inspection firms has been shown to be influenced by (a) whether it is the inspected establishment or another party that hires the inspection firm and pays for the inspection (Ronen 2010, Duflo et al 2013, Short andToffel 2016), (b) the level of competition among inspection firms (Bennett et al 2013), and (c) whether the inspecting firm has cross-selling opportunities (Koh, Rajgopal, andSrinivasan 2013, Pierce and. In contrast to these demographic aspects of individual inspectors and structural dimensions of the relationship between the inspection firm and the inspected establishment, we explore a very different potential source of inspection bias: where the inspection falls within an inspector's schedule.…”