TY - JOUR
T1 - Violence and Avoidance Behavior
T2 - The Case of the Mexican Drug War
AU - Balmori De La Miyar, Jose Roberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2019.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - This paper examines the effect of violence, originated from the Mexican Drug War, on avoidance behavior. The analysis uses three different variables to capture avoidance behavior by easiness to do, during the past year: Refrained from going out at night (easy-to-avoid), refrained from carrying cash (medium-to-avoid) and refrained from using public transportation (hard-to-avoid). Data comes from different government sources and crime victimization surveys. Results suggest a violence effect of 6.72% on refrained from going out at night, 3.52% on refrained from carrying cash and 1.20% on refrained from using public transportation.
AB - This paper examines the effect of violence, originated from the Mexican Drug War, on avoidance behavior. The analysis uses three different variables to capture avoidance behavior by easiness to do, during the past year: Refrained from going out at night (easy-to-avoid), refrained from carrying cash (medium-to-avoid) and refrained from using public transportation (hard-to-avoid). Data comes from different government sources and crime victimization surveys. Results suggest a violence effect of 6.72% on refrained from going out at night, 3.52% on refrained from carrying cash and 1.20% on refrained from using public transportation.
KW - avoidance behavior
KW - fear of crime
KW - fixed-effects
KW - instrumental variables
KW - Mexican Drug War
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076249276&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/peps-2019-0034
DO - 10.1515/peps-2019-0034
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85076249276
SN - 1079-2457
VL - 25
JO - Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
JF - Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
IS - 4
M1 - 20190034
ER -