Papers & Research Designs

Latin America Regional Meeting 2025 Peru

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

• Digging for Votes: Machine-learning detection of illegal mining and its effects on political outcomes, Santiago Saavedra.

• Drugs, Disorder, and Democracy: Supply-Side Interventions in Illicit Markets, Michael Weintraub.

• The Effect of Rents on Behavior: Evidence from Illegal Gold Mining in Peru, Antonella Bandiera.

• Breaking the Gang: A Preventive Approach to Reduce Recruitment in Schools, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla.

• Pay-to-Play: Political Contributions and Long-term Distortions in Public Procurement, Juan Riaño

• A Faustian Bargain? Security vs Democracy in Contemporary Mexico, Omar García-Ponce.

• Conceptualizing and Measuring Criminal Governance, Lucía Tiscornia

• “That Could Be Me”: Fear of Sending-Country Chaos Can Drive Immigration Attitudes, Cesar Zucco.

• From Seats of Hope to Seeds of Distrust: Backlash against Representational Transitional Justice, Sergi Martínez.

• Public Resources and Accountability: Experimental Evidence, Mariana Alvarado.

• Bandits in Uniform: The Proliferation of State-Backed Criminal Governance in Brazil, Gabriel Funari.

• The Evolution of Collective Action: Evidence from Forest Conservation in Mexico, Mark Buntaine.

Day 2

• When Police Take Sides: Policing Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Pellerino.

• Insuring peace:  Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict, Kai Sebastian Gehring.

• Advancing interdisciplinary science for modeling drug trafficking routes, Sandra Aguilar.
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• Breaking the Gridlock: Zero-Sum Thinking, Identity and Mutually Beneficial Reforms, Matteo Grigoletto.

• Voting under criminal rule: How criminal governance shapes voter turnout in Rio de Janeiro, Igor Lins.

• Effects of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru, Marco Cerón.