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. …

We move forward in identifying the causes of the marked and systematic reduction in the homicide rate in São Paulo …

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 …

We move forward in identifying the causes of the marked and systematic reduction in the homicide rate in São Paulo …

Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in … carry laws attenuate the temperature-homicide relationship. Additional results suggest that restrictions primarily decrease …

Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures … exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in … carry laws attenuate the temperature-homicide relationship. Additional results suggest that restrictions primarily decrease …

auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities in Brazil increased the monitoring of spare parts sold by junkyards …

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

The article comments on a new generation of researchers studying the illegal markets in Brazil. In doing so, I … summarize the interpretative model of ‘social accumulation of violence’. Initially applied to Rio de Janeiro, several … researchers have now expanded it to other Brazilian states as well as to countries with high violence rates, such as Colombia and …