Estimating the economic costs of organized crime by synthetic control methods
用合成控制法估计有组织犯罪的经济成本
Summary The economic costs of organized crime have been estimated for the case of southern Italy by Pinotti ( Economic Journal 2015; 125 , F203–F232, 2015): using synthetic control methods, he finds that, due to the advent of the Italian Mafia in the regions Apulia and Basilicata, GDP per capita dropped by 16%. Replicating this study in a narrow sense by estimating the same model with the same data, but using different software implementations, we observe minor differences…