This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … of the Venezuela-Colombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about … the distinct routes through which the migrants crossed Colombia. Employing a difference-in-differences approach and …

employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased … opportunities for legitimate reemployment and access to consumption credit to investigate the mechanisms underlying this job loss-crime … after job losses. Greater exposure to expansions in consumption credit also lowers the job loss-crime elasticity …

Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression …

crime have been adopted in at least 14 countries, we do not know if they are effective. We evaluate the impact of six of … these restrictions in Colombia: two that ban male passengers, two that ban any passengers (regardless of sex) and two that … restrict motorcycles outright. To identify causal effects on crime, we estimate difference-in-differences models that exploit …

employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased … opportunities for legitimate reemployment and access to consumption credit to investigate the mechanisms underlying this job loss-crime … after job losses. Greater exposure to expansions in consumption credit also lowers the job loss-crime elasticity …