-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites … has already been killed, the arrest of a member of organized crime significantly increases the chance that an incumbent …

migration on crime with longitudinal data from Brazilian microregiões. Using local labour demand shocks in the manufacturing … per cent increase in the homicide rate in destinations. Exploring possible channels, I do not find that crime …-prone migrants drive the results. The effect is only significant in locations with high past crime rates, indicating crime inertia …

-existing institutions. These results are consistent with a theoretical model in which armed groups capture local organizations for strategic …

This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this … impact persists over time, and what mechanisms may shape the relationship between inequality and civic engagement. The … results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with increases in individual participation in political organizations …