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Mafia and Public Spending
Description
yearly observations of 95 provinces from 1986 to 1999
number of observations : 1330
number of time-series : 14
country : Italy
package : panelivreg
JEL codes: D72, E62, H71, K42
Chapter : 06
Usage
data(Mafia)Format
A dataframe containing:
- province
the province (95)
- region
the region (19)
- year
the year
- pop
the population
- y
percentage growth of real per-capita value added
- g
annual variation of the per-capita public investment in infrastructure divided by lagged real per-capita value added
- cd
number of municipalities placed under the administration of external commissioners
- cds1
same as cd, provided that the official deccree is publisehd in the first semester of the year
- cds2
same as cd, provided that the average number of days betwen the dismissal of the city concil and the year end is less than 180
- u1
change in the log of per-capita employment
- u2
change in the log of per-capita hours of wage supplement provided by the unemployment insurance scheme
- mafiosi
first difference of the number of people reported by the police forces to the judicial authority because of mafia-type association
- extortion
first difference of the number of people reported by the police forces to the judicial authority because of extorsion
- corruption1
first difference of the number of people reported by the police forces to the judicial authority because of corruption
- corruption2
first difference of the number of crimes reported by the police forces to the judicial authority because of corruption
- murder
first difference of the number of people reported by the police forces to the judicial authority because of murder related to mafia activity
Source
American Economic Association Data Archive : https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/
References
Acconcia, Antonio; Corsetti, Giancarlo and Saviero Simonelli (2014) “Mafia and Public Spending: Evidence on the Fiscal Multimplier Form a Quasi-experiment”, American Economic Review, 104(7), 2189-2209, doi: 10.1257/aer.104.7.2185 .