The effect of violence on people's residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys...

The paper presents a classroom experiment designed to improve undergraduate students' understanding of how banks create money. This concept is important to Macroeconomics and Money and Banking courses, yet students frequently struggle with it, largely due to the non-physical nature of deposits...

The effect of violence on people’s residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force...