violence, however, are largely unknown. We examine the effects of Mexico’s war on drugs on risk aversion, mental health and pro …Exposure to political violence is known to affect behavioral parameters. The effects of high levels of criminal …-social behavior. Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach, we find that the post 2006 surge in violence significantly …

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 …

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 …

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 …