• Climate disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean - the role of resilient infrastructure investments and adaptation policy 

      Arreaza, Adriana; Barril, Diego; Condor, Richard; Díaz, Guillermo; Perelmuter, Nicole; Schliesser, Reinier; Toledo, Manuel (Distrito Capital, 2023)
      The objective of this article is to analyze the impact of climate events in Latin America and the Caribbean on people and the economy from a historical and prospective perspective. First, the region experienced at least ...
    • Electoral Consequences of Violent Crime: Evidence from Venezuela 

      Kronick, Dorothy (CAF, 2014-05)
      To what extent to do voters hold political incumbents accountable for policy outcomes? This paper considers retrospective voting in the context of violent crime. Using a novel panel data set on county -and neighborhood- ...
    • Moving Citizens and Deterring Criminals: Innovation in Public Transport Facilities 

      Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Duque, Juan Carlos; Urrego, Joaquin A. (CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)
      This paper explores the relationship between urban public transportation innovation and crime. In 2004, the city of Medellin in Colombia developed an innovative public transportation system based on cable cars (Metrocable) ...
    • Pax Monopolista and Crime: The Case of the Emergence of the Primeiro Comando da Capital in São Paulo 

      Biderman, Ciro; Sergio De Lima, Renato; Pinho De Mello, João Manoel; Schneider, Alexandre (CAF; Caracas, 2014-07-15)
      This paper documents a rare phenomenon: the consequence of the dominance of a single criminal gang in the city of São Paulo, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). Using unique data to identify entry in geographically ...
    • Perceptions of Police Corruption in Medellín 

      Arias, Eric; Hanson, Rebecca; Kronick, Dorothy; Slough, Tara (CAF; Caracas, 2019-11-06)
      Conventional wisdom holds that police corruption is a scourge across Latin America, undermining citizens’ trust in and collaboration with police officers. We find that this does not describe police-community relations in ...
    • Un análisis de la criminalidad urbana en Colombia 

      Ortega, Daniel; Mejía, Daniel; Ortiz, Karen (CAF, 2015-01)
      Este trabajo hace una descripción detallada de las principales cifras de criminalidad de Bogotá, Medellín, Cali y Barranquilla – que abarcan el 30% de la población de Colombia – utilizando los datos de la Policía Nacional ...