To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit … supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state … increases in homicides, gun-related homicides and crime gun seizures in the post-2004 period. Second, the magnitude of this …

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 …

The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long …-term episodes of conflict. In contrast to previous studies, this paper explores whether violence that does not include the …. Violence is measured as the number of non-drug-related homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. A municipality is classified as …

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 …

This paper develops a model of spatial violence diffusion when criminal organizations specialized in one illegal … violence triggered by the Mexican War on Drugs. The model predicts that violence will spread to locations with strategic value … this portfolio reallocation of illegal activities affected the spatial diffusion of violence. We show that violence …

The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long …-term episodes of conflict. In contrast to previous studies, this paper explores whether violence that does not include the …. Violence is measured as the number of non-drug-related homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. A municipality is classified as …

examining both actual and perceived crime. However, the studies related to violence and internal migration under the Mexican …According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), violence should be considered by … drug war episode focus only on one aspect of violence (perception or actual), so their conclusions rely mostly on limited …