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Illegal drugs and public corruption: Crack based evidence from California
European Journal of Political Economy ( IF 2.343 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102005
Alessandro Flamini , Babak Jahanshahi , Kamiar Mohaddes

Do illegal drugs foster public corruption? To estimate the causal effect of drugs on public corruption, we adopt the synthetic control method and exploit the fact that crack cocaine markets emerged in California in 1981, before reaching any other U.S. state. Our results show that public corruption more than tripled in California in the first three years following the arrival of crack cocaine. We argue that this resulted from the particular characteristics of illegal drugs: cheap technology and rigid demand, which fosters a convergence of interests between criminals and corrupted public officials resulting in a positive causal impact of illegal drugs on corruption.



中文翻译:

非法毒品和公共腐败:来自加利福尼亚的破解证据

非法毒品会助长公共腐败吗?为了估计毒品对公共腐败的因果影响,我们采用了综合控制方法,并利用了这一事实,即 1981 年在加利福尼亚出现了可卡因市场,然后才到达美国任何其他州。我们的研究结果表明,在快克可卡因到来后的头三年里,加利福尼亚的公共腐败增加了两倍多。我们认为这是由于非法毒品的特殊特征:廉价技术和刚性需求,这促进了犯罪分子和腐败公职人员之间的利益趋同,从而导致非法毒品对腐败产生积极的因果影响。

更新日期:2021-02-20
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