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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2007

production of one such resource - coca paste - into Colombia, where most coca leaf is now harvested. Our analysis shows that this …Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds … increased labor supply by teenage boys. The results also suggest that the rural areas which saw accelerated coca production …

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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Dammert, Ana - 2014

coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children's allocation …Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of … of time. After different sensitivity checks, the results indicate that a decrease in coca production is associated with …

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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations

Reuben, Ernesto - 2011

Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...

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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence

Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2014

The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...

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Salience of Law Enforcement : A Field Experiment

Dur, Robert - 2018

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law …

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Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence : Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Lindo, Jason M. - 2015

This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized crime in which law-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of the criminal organization, on community violence in the context of Mexico's drug war. Newly available historical data on...

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hale - 2022

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005 2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the...

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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - 2011

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...

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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia : Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011

Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full...

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