This paper studies the sharp increase in violence experienced in Mexico after 2006, known as "The War on Drugs," and … significant negative effects of violence on economic outcomes in Mexico, the paper finds evidence that this is not the case, at … its effects on human capital accumulation. The upsurge in violence is expected to have direct effects on individuals …

The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long …-term episodes of conflict. In contrast to previous studies, this paper explores whether violence that does not include the …. Violence is measured as the number of non-drug-related homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. A municipality is classified as …

skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half … also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone dramatically reduced crime and violence, but effects dissipated … within a year. When cash followed therapy, however, crime and violence decreased by as much as 50 percent for at least a year …

Although women?s police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have … most severe form of domestic violence. Given that a high fraction of female deaths among women ages 15 to 49 years can be …

The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad … manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root … causes of violence, and the empirical evidence on the determinants of crime. The authors conclude by stressing that …

The present study combines data from Mexico's employment surveys (Encuesta Nacional de Empleo and Encuesta Nacional de … between 2007 and 2013, a period during which murder rates in Mexico increased threefold. The association between ninis and … organized crime and the international financial crisis of 2008-09 …

in a unique context: Mexico's Drug War. The analysis takes advantage of a unique data set containing inequality and crime …The relationship between income inequality and crime has attracted the interest of many researchers, but little … convincing evidence exists on the causal effect of inequality on crime in developing countries. This paper estimates this effect …

exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over …. Combining income data from poverty maps, administrative records on crime and violence, and public expenditures data at the …Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By …

fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), entrepreneurs of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) experience chronic stress and …