NBER - LICIP

Inter-American Seminar on Economics

Conference on Crime,

Institutions and Policies
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

ORGANIZERS:
Sebastian Edwards – UCLA and NBER
Rafael Di Tella – LICIP, HBS and NBER

Ernesto Schargrodsky – LICIP and UTDT

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29^TH

Sede Alcorta: Sáenz Valiente 1010

1:45 PM Welcome

2:00 PM Session 1

Chair: Ernesto Schargrodsky

Naci Mocan (Louisiana State University an NBER)

The impact of incentives on human behavior: Can we make it disappear? The case of the death penalty (with Kaj Gittings, Cornell University)

Comments: Lucía Quesada (UTDT)

3:00 PM Joao De Mello (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)

Age structure explaining a large shift in homicides; the case of the state of Sao Paulo (with Alexandre Schneider, Secretário de Educação do Município de São Paulo)

Comments: Lucas Llach (UTDT)

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM Session 2

Chair: Rafael Di Tella

Brendan O’Flaherty (Columbia University)

Peaceable kingdoms and war zones: preemption, ballistics and murder in Newark (with Rajiv Sethi, Columbia University)

Comments: Guillermo Cruces (CEDLAS-UNLP)

5:15 PM Ana María Ibañez (Universidad de los Andes)

Do conflicts create poverty traps? Asset losses and recovery for displaced households in Colombia (with Andrés Moya, Universidad de los Andes)

Comments: Martín González Rozada (UTDT)

6:15 PM Coffee Break

6:30 PM Session 3

Chair: Sebastian Edwards

Radha Iyengar (Harvard University and NBER)

Does the certainty of arrest reduce domestic violence? Evidence from mandatory and recommended arrest laws

Comments: Rafael Di Tella (Harvard Business School and NBER)

7:30 PM Ernesto Schargrodsky (UTDT)

Electronic Monitoring of inmates (with Rafael Di Tella, Harvard Business School and NBER)

Comments: Néstor Gandelman (Universidad ORT Uruguay)

8:30 PM Dinner

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30^TH

Sede Alcorta: Sáenz Valiente 1010

9:00 AM Session 4

Chair: Ernesto Schargrodsky

Jeffrey Miron (Harvard University and NBER)

What do economists know about crime? (with Angela Dills, Mercer University, and Garret Summers, Harvard University)

Comments: Sebastian Edwards (UCLA and NBER)

10:00 AM Carlos Medina (Banco de la República de Colombia)

The cost of avoiding crime: the case of Bogotá (with Alejandro Gaviria, Universidad de los Andes, Leonardo Morales, Banco de la República de Colombia, and Jairo Núñez, Centro Nacional de Consultoría)

Comments: Alfredo Canavese (UTDT)

11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:15 PM Session 5

Chair: Sebastian Edwards

Mirko Draca (London School of Economics)

Panic on the streets of London: police, crime and the July 2005 terror attacks (with Stephen Machin, University College London and London School of Economics, and Robert Witt, University of Surrey)

Comments: TBA

12:15 PM María Laura Alzúa (IERAL-Fundación Mediterránea)

The effect of education on in-jail conflict (with Catherine Rodriguez, Universidad de los Andes, and Edgar Villa, Universidad del Externado)

Comments: Andrés Borenstein (British Embassy Buenos Aires)

1:15 – 2:45 Lunch

Sede Miñones: Miñones 2177

2:45 PM Session 6

Chair: Rafael Di Tella

Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis and NBER)

A quantitative study of optimal drug policy in low income neighborhoods (with Sheng-Wen Chang, National Chengchi University, and Edward Coulson, Penn State University)

Comments: Federico Weinschelbaum (UdeSA)

3:45 PM Rodrigo Soares (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Maryland, IZA and NBER)

Understanding high crime rates in Latin America: the role of social and policy factors (with Joana Naritomi, World Bank)

Comments: Alejandro Gaviria (Universidad de los Andes)

4:45 PM Coffee Break

5:00 PM Round table “Políticas de Seguridad en la Argentina” (in Spanish)

León Arslanian (Ministro de Seguridad de la Provincia de Buenos Aires)

Eugenio Burzaco (Diputado Nacional)

Marcelo Saín (Director de la Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria)

8:00 PM Dinner