The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict …. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys, we estimate the impact of violence on migration at the municipal … and state levels. To account for the endogeneity of violence, we use kilometers of federal highways interacted with …

This paper provides a county-level investigation of the root causes of gun violence in the U.S. To guide our empirical …

impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that … exposure to violence during the first trimester of pregnancy leads to a small but precisely estimated increase in the risk of …, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence …