crime have been adopted in at least 14 countries, we do not know if they are effective. We evaluate the impact of six of … these restrictions in Colombia: two that ban male passengers, two that ban any passengers (regardless of sex) and two that … restrict motorcycles outright. To identify causal effects on crime, we estimate difference-in-differences models that exploit …

tout their crime reduction effects, while detractors claim they undermine human rights. We experimentally evaluate a … military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the country’s most violent cities. The intervention involved recurring …, intensive military patrols targeting crime hotspots, randomly assigned at the city block level. Using administrative crime and …

We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian … least one crime report. In the following periods, crimes decrease both in the place of the arrests and the surroundings …. With many treated grids and many places exposed to spillovers, these effects add up. On aggregate, the crime reduction …

possible “brain drain” from Colombia …

Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentives. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in … formal-sector employment induces crime. Regression discontinuity estimates show this policy generated reductions in formal …-sector employment and a corresponding spike in organized crime, but no effects on crimes of impulse or opportunity …

employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased … opportunities for legitimate reemployment and access to consumption credit to investigate the mechanisms underlying this job loss-crime … after job losses. Greater exposure to expansions in consumption credit also lowers the job loss-crime elasticity …

This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during … the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …