Mexico, this article examines how masculinities are constructed in their narratives, and how these constructions mirror … former narcos, is that violence produced by criminals, and the violence produced by state institutions are two sides of the …, the violence on both sides of the trenches. …

plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich …

Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an …

-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of the criminal organization, on community violence in the context of Mexico's drug war … that are accompanied by escalations in violence. …

The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict …. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006 …. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys, we estimate the impact of violence on migration at the municipal …

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 …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …