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Lost in the Mail: A Field Experiment on Crime (2014)

Marco Castillo, Ragan A. Petrie, Máximo Torero, and Angelino Viceisza

Economic Inquiry 52 (1), 285-303

This project finds evidence of opportunistic crime, that is, systematic disappearance of physical mail. We collected experiment and survey data exploiting the international mail system between the United States and Peru. Click the links below to explore the project further.




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