On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

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Reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes are scarce. We exploit the manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug-related homicides on house prices. We use an unusually rich dataset that provides national coverage on house prices and homicides and exploit within-municipality variations. We find that the impact of violence on housing prices is borne entirely by the poor sectors of the population. An increase in homicides equivalent to one standard deviation leads to a 3% decrease in the price of low-income housing. In spite of this large burden on the poor, the willingness to pay in order to reverse the increase in drug-related crime is not high. We estimate it to be approximately 0.1% of Mexico’s GDP.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 158

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Drug-related homicides ; Costs of crime ; Poverty

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ajzenman, Nicolas ; Galiani, Sebastian ; Seira, Enrique
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
• (wo): La Plata
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127674
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ