Soil Consumption and Organised Crime: The Case of the Italian Region of Apulia
This paper investigates the potential effect that the expansion of organised crime may have on the long-term artificial land development and soil consumption by focusing specifically on the Italian region of Apulia, a peculiar case of successful mafia transplantation. This is an understudied research area that occupies the intersection between the study of organised crime’s economic consequences and the study of environmental issues. Our estimation strategy, which relies on an IV approach, exploits the forced resettlement programme that was introduced by an Italian Law from 1956 that was applied to those criminals who were suspected of belonging to the mafia’s organisations as an instrument. Specifically, the forced resettlement programme is interpreted as an exogenous shock for the territorial spread of organised crime. Our findings, robust under different specifications of the model, show that the penetration and the expansion of organised crime has produced significant effects on long-term, artificial land development and on soil consumption.
DI NOVI Cinzia;
FLAMINI Alessandro;
PERACCHI Franco;
2024-01-08
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Working Paper 23/14 December 2023
JRC135580
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