Aims To review empirical research that seeks to relate marginal increases in enforcement
against the supply of illicit drugs to changes in drug prices at the level of the drug supply …

While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached
unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil. Despite major …

This paper asks whether scarcity increases violence in markets that lack a centralized
authority. We construct a model in which, by raising prices, scarcity fosters violence. Guided …

This paper exploits variations in aerial spraying across time and space in Colombia and
employs a panel of individual health records in order to study the causal effects of the aerial …

This paper provides evidence that exposure to illegal labor markets during childhood leads
to the formation of industry‐specific human capital at an early age, putting children on a …

Understanding how economic incentives affect illegal drug production is essential for
crafting policies in response to the international drug trade. Policymakers typically face a …

Humankind has used and abused psychoactive drugs for millennia. Formally, a
psychoactive drug is any agent that alters cognition and mood. The term “psychotropic drug” …

Illicit supply networks (ISNs) are composed of coordinated human actors that source, transit,
and distribute illicitly traded goods to consumers, while also creating widespread social and …

Counterdrug interdiction efforts designed to seize or disrupt cocaine shipments between
South American source zones and US markets remain a core US “supply side” drug policy …

Policies based on prohibition and repression to fight the war on drugs have largely failed in
a variety of contexts. However, incentive-based policies may also fail and have unintended …