We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the …

development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed conflicts. However, other forms of violence, such as suicide … time, scholars in the field of public health have been arguing for putting selfdirected and interpersonal violence higher … and recipients have so far neither recognized self-directed nor interpersonal violence as a major development issue …

violence and illicit economic activities. We study four factors that the literature has identified as key determinants of a … country's local fiscal capacity: early land conflicts; historical political violence; recent political violence; and the … highlights suggestive research avenues regarding the relationship between violence, illicit economies, and state capacity. …