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The War on Illegal Drugs in Producer and Consumer Countries : A Simple Analytical Framework

Mejía, Daniel; Restrepo, Pascual - 2011

This paper develops a simple model of the war against illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries. Our analysis shows how the equilibrium quantity of illegal drugs, as well as their price, depends on key parameters of the model, among them the price elasticity of demand, and the...

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Consequences of Violence Against Social Leaders In Colombia

Orbegozo-Rodríguez, Germán D. - 2021

I study the causal effect of violence against social leaders on coca cultivation and land restitution requests in the Colombian context from 2012 to 2018. Using the timing of unexpected killings of social leaders in an event study approach, I provide evidence that the start of the violence...

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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...

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The Economics of the War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking

Mejia, Daniel - 2013

We model the war on drugs in source countries as a conflict over scarce inputs of successive levels of the production and trafficking chain. We explicitly model the vertical structure of the drug trade as being composed of several stages, and study how different policies aimed at different...

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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 countries. We explicitly model illegal drug markets,...

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Land Restitution and Selective Violence : Evidence from Colombia

Llanes, Lucas Marín; Veláquez, Mauricio; Vélez, … - 2022

Designing victims' reparation policies and solving agrarian disputes are fundamental aspects to build peace after a civil conflict. In 2014, a ceasefire with the oldest Latin-American guerrilla took place in Colombia and a peace agreement was signed in 2016. The Land Restitution Policy (LRP)...

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The Effect of Urban Violence on Student Achievement in Medellin, Colombia

Haugan, Gregory - 2017

This paper examines the impact of urban violence on the standardized test scores of public school students in Medellin. I use the school-level variation in exposure to local homicides for years 2004-2013 in a model that includes school and year fixed effects, allowing me to control for the...

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Police Reform, Training and Crime : Experimental Evidence from Colombia's Plan Cuadrantes

Garcia, Juan; Mejía, Daniel; Ortega, Daniel - 2013

contact, and holds officers accountable for crime in their assigned area. The plan warranted a comprehensive training program … reduction in several types of crime attributable to the training program, ranging from around .13 of a standard deviation for … homicides to .18 of a standard deviation for brawls. These impacts are driven by very large effects in high crime areas and very …

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Broken Windows Policing and Crime : Evidence from 80 Colombian Cities

Mejía, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobon, Santiago; … - 2022

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 …

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The Deterrent Effect of Public Surveillance Cameras on Crime

Gomez-Cardona, Santiago - 2017

We investigate if there is any effect on crime following the installation of public surveillance cameras. To do so, we … 2015. We highlight three main findings. First, there is a statistically significant decline in total crime after the … installation of the cameras. On average, total crime reports are 23.5% lower within the coverage zone following the installation of …

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