AL CAPONE

9:30 AM

Registration

9:45 AM

Welcome and Openning Remarks: Daniel Ortega (CAF) and Rodrigo R. Soares (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

Session 1: Organized Crime and the State - Chair: Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

10:00 AM

Claudio Ferraz (PUC-Rio) - State Presence and Urban Violence: Evidence from the Pacification of Rio's Favelas

Paper | 901,28 kB

Discussant: Daniel Ortega (CAF)

10:50 AM

Benjamin Lessing (University of Chicago) - Endogenous State Weakness: Paramilitaries and Electoral Politics in Rio de Janeiro

Paper | 404,94 kB

Discussant: Claudio Ferraz (PUC-Rio)

11:40 AM

Coffee Break

Keynote Lecture 1 - Chair: Daniel Ortega (CAF)

11:50 AM

Raymond Fisman (Columbia University) - The Social Costs of Political Connections

Paper | 440,61 kB

1:00 PM

Lunch

Session 2: Youth - Chair: João M. P. De Mello (Insper)

2:30 PM

Sara Heller (University of Pennsylvania) - Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: Experimental Evidence from Juvenile Detention

Discussant: Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

3:20 PM

Ana María Ibáñez (Universidad de los Andes) - Crime, Punishment, and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Colombian Adolescents

Paper | 328,36 kB

Discussant: Naercio Aquino Menezes Filho (Insper)

4:10 PM

Ignacio Munyo (Universidad de Montevideo) - The Juvenile Crime Dilemma

Paper | 199,06 kB

Discussant: Bernardo Guimarães (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

5:00 PM

End of the First Day

7:00 PM

Conference Dinner

Session 3: Immigrants - Chair: Daniel Mejía (Universidad de los Andes)

9:00 AM

Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex) - The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Paper | 1,41 MB

Discussant: Rodrigo R. Soares (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

9:50 AM

Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) - Clicking on Heavens’ Door: Migration Policy and Immigrant Crime

Paper | 942,25 kB

Discussant: Sérgio Firpo (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

10:40 AM

Coffee Break

Keynote Lecture 2 - Chair: Sérgio Firpo (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

10:50 AM

Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario) - Reducing Crime Through Education-Based Policy

Paper | 330,78 kB

12:00 PM

Lunch

Session 4: Drugs - Chair: Rodrigo R. Soares (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

1:30 PM

Olivier Marie (Maastricht University) - “High” Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Paper | 1,10 MB

Discussant: Daniel Mejía (Universidad de los Andes)

2:20 PM

Daniel Mejía (Universidad de los Andes) - Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War

Paper | 1,07 MB

Discussant: Bruno Ferman (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

3:10 PM

André P. Souza (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV) - Crime in Cracolândia: Estimating the Effect of Drug Decriminalization on Crime

Paper | 2,56 MB

Discussant: João M. P. De Mello (Insper)

4:00 PM

Closing Remarks and End of the Conference