Replication Data for Organized Crime, Local Politicians, and State Capacity

Replication data and code for a 2026 study published in the Journal of Development Economics. The package is designed to reproduce all tables and figures from the article. It was authored by Seung-hun Lee and is hosted on the Harvard Dataverse platform.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric analyses of organized crime's influence based on the study's methodology.
• Verify the statistical results and visualizations presented in the published journal article.
• Use the underlying data as a foundation for new research on crime, politics, and institutional development.

Strengths

• Directly supports replication of a peer-reviewed article in a major economics journal.
• Includes both data and code, which suggests a commitment to research transparency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and data scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely compiled for academic research, though the specific collection method is not detailed.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-09 15:26:09; freshness should be verified.