We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the …

Buenaventura, in southwestern Colombia. Relying on six months of fieldwork experience in a hardware shop of Ciudad Blanca, an … impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …

less conventional factors such as abortion or gun laws. The hypothesis that drug prohibition generates violence, however … role in determining violence"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …