Bogota is unique in recording and reporting the socioeconomic status of COVID-19 patients. As others in Latin America and Asia, the city imposed a blanket lockdown before contagion picked up in early 2020 and kept it in place for six months. We document that, during that period, being...

This paper studies the effects of enforcement on illegal behavior in the context of a large aerial spraying program designed to curb coca cultivation in Colombia. In 2006, the Colombian government pledged not to spray a 10 km band around the frontier with Ecuador due to diplomatic frictions...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Purity, Price, and Production: Are Drug Markets Different? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Motivation -- 2.3 Risks and Prices -- 2.4 Some Puzzles -- 2.5 Participant Characteristics, Market Outcomes, and...