El Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a un nuevo Seminario Académico:

Título - Migration and Crime in Ecuador

Autor - Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo) Jose Fernandez (University of Bristol) Matteo Pazzona (Universidad Católica del Norte).

Presenta - Matteo Pazzona (Universidad Católica del Norte).

Abstract - This paper evaluates the casual impact of migration on homicides rates for Ecuadorian provinces for the period 1999-2012. Our main measure of migration is the stock of asylum seekers. In order to address the endogeneity of the migration variable, we exploit the implementation of the Plan Colombia, which caused thousands of Colombian people to seek asylum in Ecuador. Results show a modest but significant crime-reducing effect of migration on homicides rates. In particular, we are able to conclude that an increase of the asylum seekers stock by about 2,000 people (per 100,000) lead to a reduction of about 1.37 murder per 100,000 people. These results are in line with the previous literature on developed countries which found no effect or little crime- reducing effect (Bianchi et al., 2012, Bell and Machin, 2012, and Bell et al., 2013). 

El  Seminario  se realizará el miércoles 30 de julio de 13:00 a 14.00 hrs, en  la Sala P-308 Tercer Piso del edificio Placa de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, ubicada en Diagonal Paraguay 257.