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100			_aBellego, Christophe and Drouard, Joeffrey _951884
245			_aFighting crime in lawless areas: Evidence from slums in Rio de Janeiro
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic policy
300			_a16(1), Feb, 2024: p.124-159
520			_aWe use Rio de Janeiro's slum pacification program initiated in 2008 to analyze the effect of policies targeting crime in lawless areas. We correct the bias from the unobserved rise in crime reporting via the use of a proxy variable and bounded variation assumptions. We find that the program reduced the murder and robbery rates but strongly increased the assault and threat rates. We explain these results by providing evidence that increased enforcement weakened the security service that gangs provide on their turf, and may incentivize criminals to switch from serious to less serious crimes.- Reproduced https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20200587
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic policy
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