Papers & Research Designs

Latin America Regional Meeting

We kindly ask you to review the working papers and materials below beforehand, and prepare to share your feedback, comments, and questions during each session:

Day 1

• Plenary 1:
  • Digging for Votes: Machine-learning detection of illegal mining and its effects on political outcomes, Santiago Saavedra.
• Plenary 2:
  • The Political and Violent Repercussions of Drug Interdiction: Evidence from Colombia’s Cocaine Economy, Michael Weintraub.
• Feedback session 1.1:
  • The Effect of Rents on Selection and Behavior: Evidence from Illegal Gold Mining in Peru, Antonella Bandiera.
• Feedback session 1.2:
  • Breaking the Gang: A Preventive Approach to Reduce Recruitment in Schools, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla.
• Feedback session 2.1:
  • Pay-to-Play: Political Contributions and Long-term Distortions in Public Procurement, Juan Riaño
• Feedback session 2.2:
  • A Faustian Bargain? Security vs Democracy in Contemporary Mexico, Omar García-Ponce.
• Feedback session 3.1:
  • When Police Take Sides: Policing Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Pellerino.
• Feedback session 3.2:
  • “That Could Be Me”: Fear of Sending-Country Chaos Can Drive Immigration Attitudes, Cesar Zucco.
• Feedback session 4.1:
  • From Seats of Hope to Seeds of Distrust: Backlash against Representational Transitional Justice, Sergi Martínez.
• Feedback session 4.2:
  • Public Resources and Accountability: Experimental Evidence, Mariana Alvarado.
• Feedback session 5.1:
  • Bandits in Uniform: The Proliferation of State-Backed Criminal Governance in Brazil, Gabriel Funari.
• Feedback session 5.2:
  • The Evolution of Collective Action: Evidence from Forest Conservation in Mexico, Mark Buntaine.

Day 2

• Plenary 4:
  • Criminal Governance in Unexpected Places: the case of Uruguay, Lucía Tiscornia
• Plenary 5:
  • Insuring peace:  Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict, Kai Sebastian Gehring.
• Feedback session 6.1:
  • Estimating Traffic Routes in Colombia, Sandra Aguilar.
• Feedback session 6.2:
  • Breaking the gridlock: Zero-Sum Thinking, Identity and Mutually Beneficial Reforms, Matteo Grigolletto.

• Feedback session PhD Lab 1:
  • Voting under criminal rule: How criminal governance shapes voter turnout in Rio de Janeiro, Igor Lins.
• Feedback session PhD Lab 2:
  • Effects of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru, Marco Cerón.