Diffusion of crime control benefits: forced eradication and coca crops in Colombia

Eleonora Davalos and Leonardo Morales

Spatial Economic Analysis, 2023, vol. 18, issue 3, 292-317

Abstract: One explanation for the increasing number of hectares of coca is that eradication strategies displace coca crops but fail to completely clear affected areas. In the drug policy literature, that dynamic shifting is commonly known as the balloon effect. This study integrates georeferenced agricultural data through spatially explicit econometric models to test the hypothesis that forced eradication displaces coca crops. Using annual data for 1116 contiguous municipalities in Colombia, we estimate a spatial Durbin error model. Our results suggest that, on average, aerial fumigation in a municipality diffuses the benefits of this crime control strategy to neighbouring municipalities.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2022.2151642

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