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SUMMARY:Nicholas Trajtenberg "Do Opportunity Effects Travel?" and Olga Sa
 nchez de Ribera "Evaluating a community-based domestic violence programm
 e in the Dominican Republic”
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DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Lat
 in American and Caribbean Studies.\n\nWed 25 November 2026\, 5pm (UK tim
 e). The event will be in person and online. You can follow it online her
 e: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2\n\nThis is the second in an experimental
  format for the seminar series\, in which two Latin Americanists at the 
 University of Manchester each present short papers of 30 minutes\, each 
 followed by a short Q&A.\n\nNico Trajtenberg's full title and abstract: 
 "Do Opportunity Effects Travel? Replication of Quasi-Experimental Eviden
 ce in Two Latin American Cities". Quasi-experimental research has improv
 ed causal identification in criminology\, but  whether the resulting est
 imates travel across settings is rarely examined. In this paper we condu
 ct a direct design replication of Díaz et al. (2026b)\, who exploit Mont
 evideo’s itinerant street markets as temporary shocks to pedestrian conc
 entration to estimate their effect on property crime. We apply the same 
 treatment definition\, identification strategy  estimator\, spatial unit
 \, outcomes\, event-time window\, and placebo tests to Santiago de Chile
 \, where an analogous system of itinerant markets generates comparable i
 dentifying variation. The two cities differ in urban scale\, baseline cr
 ime\, market organization\, and policing\, yet the Montevideo results ca
 rry over. Theft rises sharply within 100 meters of a market during opera
 ting hours\, decays with distance\, and vanishes outside market hours\, 
 while the placebo tests yield null effects in both cities. In contrast\,
  robbery does not show any effects. The offense asymmetry documented for
  Montevideo is therefore not specific to that city and\, instead\, exten
 ds across two distinct Latin American urban settings. More generally\, o
 ur study shows how direct design replications can be used to evaluate th
 e transportability of quasi-experimental findings in criminology.\n\nOlg
 a Sanchez de Ribera's full title and abstract: "Process evaluation of a 
 commuity-based domestic violence perpetrator programme in the Dominican 
 Republic". Although Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) are a common a
 pproach for addressing intimate partner violence (IPV)\, their effective
 ness remains questioned. Characteristics of BIPs’ implementation are rec
 ognised as consequential\, but studies remain scarce and are mainly from
  high-income countries. To address this gap\, a process evaluation was c
 onducted to identify facilitators and barriers to BIP implementation in 
 the Dominican Republic. Semi-structured interviews (N?=?17) were underta
 ken in person with managers and facilitators at BIP sites and practition
 ers in criminal justice and partner agencies. Our results found similar 
 challenges to those reported in Western countries (e.g. ineffective inte
 gration of evidence-based principles\, funding constraints\, limited tra
 ining\, unmotivated participants\, one-size-fits-all approach\, weak mul
 ti-agency coordination) and others specific to the Dominican Republic (e
 .g. program expansion without resources\, poor coordination across progr
 am sites\, inappropriate referrals\, lack of risk assessment tools\, dig
 ital data issues). \n\nNicholas Trajtenberg Pareja is Lecturer in Crimin
 ology at the University of Manchester.\n\nOlga Sanchez de Ribera is Lect
 urer in Criminology at the University of Manchester.\n
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LOCATION:A202\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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