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 …

online reduces the likelihood of coordination failures at both the extensive (engagement) and intensive (violence) margins …

emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link … planting season", i.e. December, determines an increase in violence fuelled by the reduction in future rice production per …

We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is …

data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the … ; Plan Colombia …

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 …

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. …