Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … violence. Instead, we find that the match day effect can be attributed to violence among males in the 18-29 age group, rises to …-related violence in the United States, but can be accommodated by social identity explanations of football hooliganism. …