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日時Date and Time：2023年9月28日（木）10：00-11：30 28 September 2023, 10:00am-11:30am
場所Venue：早稲田大学3号館909教室 Room 909, Building 3, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
使用言語Language：英語English
発表者Speaker：Carlos Schmidt-Padilla (University of Pennsylvania)
タイトルTitle：Organized Crime and Development
要旨Abstract：We study how territorial control by criminal organizations affects economic development. We exploit a natural experiment in El Salvador, where these criminal organizations emerged due to an exogenous shift in American immigration policy that led to the deportation of gang leaders from the United States to El Salvador. Using a spatial regression discontinuity design that focuses on the gang-created system of borders, we find that individuals in gang-controlled neighborhoods have less material well-being, income, and education than individuals living only 50 meters away but outside of gang territory. None of these discontinuities existed before the arrival of the gangs. A key mechanism behind the results is that gangs restrict individuals’ mobility, affecting their labor-market options by preventing them from commuting to other parts of the city. The results are not determined by high rates of selective migration, differential exposure to extortion and violence, or differences in public goods provision.
