We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the …

association between cities, violence, and disorder is not new, however. In a classic article on 'Urbanism as a way of life', Louis … Wirth (1938: 23) famously links cities to 'personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide, delinquency, crime … necessarily lead to urban violence. This is a standpoint that is further reinforced by the fact that not all cities around the …

This paper studies the emergence of violence in legal markets, with a particular focus on the informal public transport … is plagued by significant and persistent violence, imposing substantial social costs. Using novel administrative data …-related violence compiled from print and online media, I examine the interplay between competition, firm growth, and violence. I …

migration on crime with longitudinal data from Brazilian microregiões. Using local labour demand shocks in the manufacturing … per cent increase in the homicide rate in destinations. Exploring possible channels, I do not find that crime …-prone migrants drive the results. The effect is only significant in locations with high past crime rates, indicating crime inertia …