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Bushes and Bullets : Illegal Cocaine Markets and Violence in Colombia
Mejia, Daniel - 2013
This paper proposes a new identification strategy to estimate the causal impact of illicit drug markets on violence using a panel of Colombian municipalities covering the period 1994-2008. Using a UNODC survey of Colombian rural households involved in coca cultivation, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073014
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The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking : An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia
Mejia, Daniel - 2013
This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and … 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper develops a game theory model of the war against illegal drugs in producer … market outcomes that are potentially important when evaluating large scale policy interventions such as Plan Colombia. We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095580
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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries : a simple analytical framework
Mejía, Daniel (contributor) - 2008
data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the … ; Plan Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790762
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Is the war on drugs working? : examining the Colombian case using micro data
Ibanez, Marcela - 2013
living in a coca growing area in Colombia. We find that while eradication and alternative development decrease coca supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359631
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A survey-based choice experiment on coca cultivation
Ibanez, Marcela; Carlsson, Frederik - 2009
From 1997 to 2005, an astonishing 5,200 million USD was invested to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258040
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The Microeconomics of Cocaine Production and Trafficking in Colombia (La Microeconomía De La Producción Y Tráfico De Cocaína En Colombia)
Mejia, Daniel; Rico Valencia, Daniel Mauricio - 2011
This chapter presents a detailed analysis of the microeconomics of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia. The … illegal business in Colombia in 2008 amounted to $13.6 billion pesos (about 2.3% of GDP), distributed as follows. $1.2 billion … capítulo presenta una radiografía detallada de la microeconomía de la producción y tráfico de cocaína en Colombia. El capítulo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044886
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Opium for the masses? : conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2009
We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808967
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Opium for the masses? : conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009
We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813626
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Opium for the Masses? Conflict-Induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan
Lind, Jo Thori - 2013
We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753183
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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715876