first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher … contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous …

first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher … contracts, or to seek protection from competitors’ improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous …

first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher … contracts, or to seek protection from competitors’ improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous …

markets ; violence ; homicide ; mahogany ; Brazil … first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher …

markets ; violence ; homicide ; mahogany ; Brazil … first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher …

first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher … contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous …

high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle … of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per …

This paper proposes a new identification strategy to estimate the causal impact of illicit drug markets on violence … municipalities that we use as an instrument to uncover the causal effect of illegal cocaine markets on violence. We find that a 10 … violence as different armed groups fight each other, the government and the civil population for their control and extraction. …

to violence in markets without third party enforcement. We construct a model in which supply shortages increase total … party enforcement, the incentives to prey on others and avoid predation by exercising violence increase with scarcity, thus … increasing violence. We test our model and the proposed channel using data for the cocaine trade in Mexico. We found that …