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Police reform, training and crime: experimental evidence from colombia's plan cuadrantes
(CAF, 2013)
The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities ...
Crime Protection Investment Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from the City of Buenos Aires
(CAF, 2013)
This paper studies spillover effects among potential crime victims from investment in observable protection technologies. Criminals and potential victims interact in a frictional market for offenses. Externalities within ...
Drug battles and school achievement: evidence from Rio de Janeiro's favelas
(CAF, 2013)
This paper examines the effects of armed conflicts between drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro's favelas on student achievement. To identify the causal effect of violence on education, we explore variation in violence that occurs ...
From maize to haze: agricultural shocks and growth of the mexican drug sector
(CAF, 2013)
We examine how commodity price shocks experienced by rural producers affect the drug trade in Mexico. Our analysis exploits exogenous movements in the Mexican maize price stemming from weather conditions in U.S. maize-growing ...
The pharmacological channel revisited: alcohol sales restrictions and crime in Bogotá
(CAF, 2013)
Our goal in this paper is twofold: First, evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of latenight alcohol sales in Bogotá; and second, quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime ...