In this paper, we investigate the relationship between deforestation and violence using annual municipal level data for … that for 2008-2019, considering time and location, and controlling for municipal level factors, violence (murder and murder …

countries tend to redistribute more. Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru redistribute below the trend …

economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be … effect is significant in Argentina and Colombia and nil in Mexico, where there has been no such expansion. We find that a …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …

drug traffickers, namely their strategies and use of violence by analyzing the development of maritime trade and the …

cycle of violence and reproduction of inequalities on a social level, as well as given rise to criminal populism in the …

Illegality in the Economy (Beckert and Dewey, 2017) and Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality: Evidence from a Brazilian …