AL CAPONE 2014

AL CAPONE 4th ANNUAL MEETING joint with the
6th SAO PAULO SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS CONFERENCE SERIES
DAY 1 - Thursday, April 24
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
Discussant: Daniel Ortega (CAF)
10:50 AM Benjamin Lessing (University of Chicago) - Endogenous State Weakness: Paramilitaries and Electoral Politics in Rio de Janeiro
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
1:00 PM
Lunch Break
Session 2: Youth - Chair: João M. P. De Mello (Insper)
2:30 PM
3:20 PM
4:10 PM
5:00 PM
Sara Heller (University of Pennsylvania) - Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: Experimental Evidence from Juvenile Detention
Discussant: Ernesto Schargrodsky (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
Ana María Ibáñez (Universidad de los Andes) - Crime, Punishment, and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Colombian Adolescents
Discussant: Naercio Aquino Menezes Filho (Insper)
Ignacio Munyo (Universidad de Montevideo) - The Juvenile Crime Dilemma
Discussant: Bernardo Guimarães (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)
End of the First Day
DAY 2 - Friday, April 25
Session 3: Immigrants - Chair: Daniel Mejía (Universidad de los Andes)
9:00 AM
9:50 AM
Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex) - The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Discussant: Rodrigo R. Soares (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)
Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) - Clicking on Heavens’ Door: Migration Policy and Immigrant Crime
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
12:00 PM
Lunch Break
Session 4: Drugs - Chair: Rodrigo R. Soares (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)
1:30 PM
2:20 PM
3:10 PM
4:00 PM
Olivier Marie (Maastricht University) - “High” Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Discussant: Daniel Mejía (Universidad de los Andes)
Daniel Mejía (Universidad de los Andes) - Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War
Discussant: Bruno Ferman (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV)
André P. Souza (Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV) - Crime in Cracolândia: Estimating the Effect of Drug Decriminalization on Crime
Discussant: João M. P. De Mello (Insper)
Closing Remarks and End of the Conference