Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89143 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-471
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold 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 housing prices. Using an unusually rich dataset that provides national coverage on housing prices and homicides and exploits within- municipality variation, the study finds that the burden of violence affects only the poor. An increase in homicides equivalent to one standard deviation leads to a 3 percent decrease in low-income housing prices. Moreover, the effect on housing prices of long-term increases in crime is 40 percent larger.
JEL: 
I3
K4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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