We introduce a dynamic model that investigates the persistence and evolution of elite-dominated societies, where … exit options in the evolution of political inclusiveness across generations. An elite comparatively more mobile than the … generations. Exit options across different political entities lead to a joint evolution of local power structures. …

exposure to violence substantially increases present bias - choice of the smaller, immediate reward over the larger, later … mitigates the differences in behavior between those who were exposed to violence and those who were not. Our findings suggest … patient choices and mitigate the elevated impulsivity of individuals that have experienced violence. We measure our treatment …

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 …

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent … the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …

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 …

Globally, 150 million adolescents report being victims of or engaging in peer-to-peer violence in and around school …-geneous groups, heterogeneous peer groups do help students avoid violence. These results are relevant to public policy discussions on … optimal group composition for violence reduction programs. …

of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …

studies focus their attention on tax compliance factors associated with trust and power. Therefore, this study is dedicated to … fully exploring these factors. The results show that most factors had a significant influence on trust and power. The … compliance. However, the study fails to find evidence of the relationship of power with enforced compliance, although enforced …

We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …