Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an …

development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed conflicts. However, other forms of violence, such as suicide … time, scholars in the field of public health have been arguing for putting selfdirected and interpersonal violence higher … and recipients have so far neither recognized self-directed nor interpersonal violence as a major development issue …

Puzzled about why and how coca-growing areas in Bolivia do not have the same levels of violence and criminality … interactions with both state and market structures appear as a key factor in mitigating violence and criminal activity. Second …