migration and increasing the consequences for migrants engaging in criminal activity. Today, the results are clear: a law …

This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both … first study to document a link between transit migration and crime. …

The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict …. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys, we estimate the impact of violence on migration at the municipal … evidence that increases in homicides have led to out-migration, at the domestic level. We also find little evidence of …

The opioid epidemic and migration along the US–Mexico border are two of the most-debated policy issues in recent US … politics. We show how these two topics are interlinked: the US opioid epidemic generated large Mexican migration flows. We … the US. The rise in US demand for heroin increased internal migration by an estimated 90,000 individuals and migration …