Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Whereas attitudes toward risk play an important role in many decisions over the life course, factors that affect those attitudes are not fully understood. Using longitudinal survey data collected in Mexico before and during the Mexican war on drugs, we investigate how risk attitudes change with variation in insecurity and uncertainty brought on by unprecedented changes in local-area violent crime. Exploiting the fact that the timing, virulence, and spatial distribution of changes in violent crime were unanticipated, we establish there is a rise in risk aversion spread across the entire local population as local-area violent crime increases.

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Criminal Recruitment or Victimization: The Effects of the Mexican Drug War on Education

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3480335 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ivan Lopez Cruz ◽

Nicholas Pairolero

Keyword(s):

Drug War ◽

Mexican Drug War

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Are voters too afraid to tackle corruption? Survey and experimental evidence from Mexico

Political Science Research and Methods ◽

10.1017/psrm.2020.49 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Omar García-Ponce ◽

Thomas Zeitzoff ◽

Leonard Wantchekon

Keyword(s):

Political Behavior ◽

Causal Effects ◽

Willingness To Accept ◽

Survey Experiment ◽

Drug War ◽

Mexican Drug War ◽

The Face ◽

Victims Of Crime ◽

Nationally Representative

Abstract Are individuals in violent contexts reluctant to tackle corruption for fear of future violence? Or does violence mobilize them to fight corruption? We investigate these questions looking at the effects of fear and violence stemming from the Mexican Drug War on attitudes toward corruption. We conducted two surveys before the 2012 Mexican presidential election. First, as part of a nationally representative survey, we find a positive correlation between fear of violence and willingness to accept corruption in exchange for lower levels of violence. To disentangle causal effects, we conducted a follow-up survey experiment in Greater Mexico City where we manipulated fear over the Drug War. We find that individuals within this context are not easily scared. Those who received a common fear-inducing manipulation do not report higher levels of fear and are less willing to tolerate corruption. Conversely, we find strong evidence that individuals who have been victims of crime are more likely to report both higher levels of fear and willingness to accept corruption if it lowers violence. Our findings suggest that voters are more strategic and resilient in the face of violence than many extant theories of political behavior suggest.

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Effect of Actual and Perceived Violence on Internal Migration: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War

IZA Journal of Development and Migration ◽

10.2478/izajodm-2020-0008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Amilcar Orlian Fernandez-Dominguez

Keyword(s):

Maximum Entropy ◽

Gravity Model ◽

Internal Migration ◽

Interstate Migration ◽

Limited Evidence ◽

Drug War ◽

Homicide Rates ◽

Oaxaca Decomposition ◽

Generalized Maximum Entropy ◽

Mexican Drug War

AbstractAccording to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), violence should be considered by examining both actual and perceived crime. However, the studies related to violence and internal migration under the Mexican drug war episode focus only on one aspect of violence (perception or actual), so their conclusions rely mostly on limited evidence. This article complements previous work by examining the effects of both perceived and actual violence on interstate migration through estimation of a gravity model along three 5-year periods spanning from 2000 to 2015. Using the methods of generalized maximum entropy (to account for endogeneity) and the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition, the results show that actual violence (measured by homicide rates) does affect migration, but perceived violence explains a greater proportion of higher average migration after 2005. Since this proportion increased after 2010 and actual violence, the results suggest that there was some adaptation to the new levels of violence in the period 2010–2015.

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Income Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War

10.1596/24872 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Ted Enamorado ◽

Luis F. López-Calva ◽

Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán ◽

Hernán Winkler

Keyword(s):

Income Inequality ◽

Violent Crime ◽

Drug War

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Discourse and blocked mourning –

Perspectivas Revista de Ciencias Sociales ◽

10.35305/prcs.v0i6.38 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 140-166

Author(s):

Joshua Hurtado Hurtado

Keyword(s):

Security Policy ◽

Public Official ◽

Strategy Formulation ◽

Drug War ◽

Security Issues ◽

Official Discourse ◽

Mexican Drug War ◽

Societal Level ◽

Effects Of Violence ◽

Mourning And Melancholia

While there has been research focusing on security issues in Mexico in the context of the Mexican Drug War and the effects of violence on its population, little has been done to explore the relationship between public-official discourse, political practices and mourning at a societal level. Using the Logics of Critical Explanation (LCE) framework developed by Jason Glynos and David Howarth, and focusing on the notions of mourning and melancholia at a societal level, this paper argues that the conditions for mourning at a societal level have not been met in public-official discourse regarding the security policy and the Mexican Drug War, resulting in subjects experiencing blocked mourning. It views the Peace and Reconciliation Forums as a political logic that seeks to differentiate the approach taken by the incoming López Obrador administration in relation to security strategy formulation and attention to victims and Human Rights’ groups. It also argues that while the forums themselves have some attributes that could pave the way for successful mourning to occur, a comprehensive set of practices needs to materialize that addresses the concerns of violence-affected subjects.

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