| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24115 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24115 |
| Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia | |
| Daron Acemoglu; Giuseppe De Feo; Giacomo De Luca | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-12-18 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We document that the spread of the Mafia in Sicily at the end of the 19th century was in part shaped by the rise of socialist Peasant Fasci organizations. In an environment with weak state presence, this socialist threat triggered landholders, estate managers and local politicians to turn to the Mafia to resist and combat peasant demands. We show that the location of the Peasant Fasci is significantly affected by an exceptionally severe drought in 1893, and using information on rainfall, we establish the causal effect of the Peasant Fasci on the location of the Mafia in 1900. We provide extensive evidence that rainfall before and after this critical period has no effect on the spread of the Mafia or various economic and political outcomes. In the second part of the paper, we use the source of variation in the location of the Mafia in 1900 to estimate its medium-term and long-term effects. We find significant and quantitatively large negative impacts of the Mafia on literacy and various public goods in the 1910s and 20s. We also show a sizable impact of the Mafia on political competition, which could be one of the channels via which it affected local economic outcomes. We document negative effects of the Mafia on longer-term outcomes (in the 1960s, 70s and 80s) as well, but these are in general weaker and often only marginally significant. One exception is its persistent and strong impact on political competition. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24115 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581789 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daron Acemoglu,Giuseppe De Feo,Giacomo De Luca. Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia. 2017. |
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