Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2023
We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug … 27\% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …