Reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes are scarce. We exploit the manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug-related homicides on house prices. We use an unusually rich...

En este articulo se sintetizan los resultados de un analisis de factores de largo plazo que afectan a la distribucion del ingreso en cinco paises de la region: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia y Mexico, sobre la base de encuestas de hogares disponibles para esos paises entre 1979 y 1992. Tras...