Papers & Research Designs
Crime & Inequality
Please read the below ahead of time and prepare to share your feedback during the session:
Friday, June 13
- Session 1a: “Shedding Light on (In)Visible Borders: Using Power Utility Data to Trace Territorial Criminal Enterprises in Rio de Janeiro” Joana Monteiro, Getulio Vargas Foundation.
- Session 2a: “Crime and the Local Economy: Assessing the effect of homicides on Local Store Consumption and Price Volatility” Santiago Lopez-Cariboni, Universidad de la República.
- Session 3a: “Examining the Causes and Consequences of Medicine Theft Using Remote Tracking Technologies” Brigitte Seim, University of Minnesota.
Saturday, June 14
- Session 4a: “How does the illegal fentanyl market alter crime patterns in Mexico? Evidence at the municipality level” Laura Atuesta, Universidad EAFIT.
- Session 5a: “Building Trust in the Police: Evidence from a Multi-Site Experiment in Colombia” Santiago Tobón, Universidad EAFIT.
- Session 6a: “Demand Shocks and Judicial Bottlenecks: The Unintended Consequences of Online Crime Reporting in Colombia” Martin Vanegas Arias, Universidad EAFIT.
Open
Please read the below ahead of time and prepare to share your feedback during the session:
Friday, June 13
- Session 1b: “Microcorporatism and Local Development: A Participatory Planning Experiment in Rural Paraguay” Cyrus Samii, NYU
- Session 2b: “Effects of Mediation on Economic Outcomes” Rebecca Wolfe, University of Chicago.
- Session 3b: “Do class-based cues shape interactions in the housing market?” Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes
Saturday, June 14
- Session 4b: “Barriers to Formalization: Evidence from Six Randomized Experiments on Transaction Costs, Public Services, and Taxation in the Global South” Ana de la O, Yale University.
- Session 5b: “Powerful Detection in Block-Randomized Experiments by Testing Hypotheses on a Tree” Jake Bowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Session 6b: “Smithian State Formation” Mateo Uribe-Castro, Universidad de los Andes.