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Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated?: The role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crimeWhen does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs...
Crime Drug trafficking Political violenceJournal Article
Internal migration and crime in BrazilEmpirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants...
Brazil Crime Internal migrationWorking Paper
Law enforcement and illegal markets: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in BrazilI describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime...
Law enforcement Crime RegulationWorking Paper
The social consequences of organized crime in ItalyOrganized crime affects security, development, and democracy worldwide, but not much is known about its social consequences...
Crime Social capital ItalyWorking Paper
Countering global oil theft: responses and solutionsThis second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource...
Oil Fuel CorruptionWorking Paper
Global oil theft: impact and policy responsesThis paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5–7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petrole...
Oil Fuel CorruptionJournal Article
Stabbed in the back?: Mandated political representation and murdersThis study provides the first country-wide research evidence that an affirmative action policy may induce a backlash. I exploit the timing of the implementation of castebased electoral quotas across and within the states of India...
Caste Crime Equality and inequalityBlog
Is sexual violence a driver of the early marriage of girls in India?
Marriage at a younger age, generally before the legal age of marriage, is a pervasive practice in many parts of the world...
Child Marriage Women's empowerment CrimeWorking Paper
Local crime and early marriage: Evidence from IndiaThis paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early marriage—that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls...
Crime early marriage GenderWorking Paper
Internal migration and crime in BrazilEmpirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants...
Brazil Crime Internal migrationBook Chapter
Governance and the reversal of women's rights: The case of abortion in El SalvadorFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Public service delivery Maternal and child health Citizen engagementWorking Paper
Governance and the reversal of women’s rights: The case of abortion in El SalvadorStates’ governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to ‘stagnation’ and ‘progress’, there can be an active reversal of rights already granted to women...
Abortion Women CrimeWorking Paper
Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castesMandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women...
Caste Crime Equality and inequalityJournal Article
Caste-based crimes and economic status: Evidence from IndiaCrimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC and ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination...
Caste Crime Social conditionsWorking Paper
State-Building Through Neotrusteeship: Kosovo and East Timor in Comparative PerspectiveWhy do some states, with foreign assistance, transition from ‘fragile’ to ‘robust?’ Scholars in state-building have argued that neotrusteeship is an effective strategy by which external organizations might build post-conflict ...
Conflict management Crime Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Starting from Scratch? Improving Representation and ResponsivenessAfter its 14-year civil war, Liberia worked with multiple donors and partners to restore security...
Bureaucracy Crime Economic assistance and foreign aid