This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … of the Venezuela-Colombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about … the distinct routes through which the migrants crossed Colombia. Employing a difference-in-differences approach and …

English Abstract: Although motorcycle restrictions have been adopted to reduce crime in more than 25 Colombian cities …Spanish Abstract: Aunque las restricciones a motocicletas han sido adoptadas en más de 25 ciudades en Colombia para … variation in their implementation and georeferenced crime data. We find neither large nor lasting effects of these measures on …

From 1997 to 2005, an astonishing 5,200 million USD was invested to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, the world … programs. Our results support Becker's (1968) model of crime participation and in addition shed light on other non …

Approximately 1.2% of Colombia's GNP is spent every year on the war on drugs, but very little is known about coca … of land to use for its cultivation, we develop an extended version of the portfolio model of crime that considers the … with coca and non-coca farmers living in Putumayo, Colombia. We find that farmers react to economic incentives and hence …

Evidence has repeatedly shown that disparities in crime sentences can be attributed to certain variables considered … topic by focusing on disparities in homicide sentences using data from over 9000 homicide cases tried in Colombia from 1980 …'s sentence and if the sentence should be above the legal minimum set for the severity of the crime according to the criminal code …

spatial persistence in the municipal homicide rate in Colombia, as a result of shock increases in the displaced population and … Colombia …

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 …