Fighting Crime in Lawless Areas: Evidence from Slums in Rio de Janeiro

Christophe Bellego; Joeffrey Drouard (2024) · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-65", tranche="tranche100")

Christophe Bellego; Joeffrey Drouard (2024). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Table 3.

Template assessment

The source jointly estimates temporary police intervention and subsequent pacification, with unit-specific trends. A single absorbing treatment does not preserve its two-stage policy estimand.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.