On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira ()
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Enrique Seira: Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

No 1405, Working Papers from Centro de Investigacion Economica, ITAM

Abstract: We are first paper to study the economic effects of drug-trafficking organization violence. 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

Keywords: Drug-related homicides; Costs of crime; Poverty. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2014
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