Executive summary In September, 2015, the member states of the UN endorsed Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, which aspire to human-rights-centred approaches to …

THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND
UPDATED" This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health …

We document that the spread of the Mafia in Sicily at the end of the 19th century was in part
caused by the rise of socialist Peasant Fasci organizations. In an environment with weak …

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 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 …

The increase in the international price of commodities after the international financial crisis
in 2008 produced a gold rush in the Colombian economy, making legal and illegal mining 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 …

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 …

This paper studies the effects of enforcement on illegal behavior in the context of a large
aerial spraying program designed to curb coca cultivation in Colombia. In 2006, the …

We model the war on drugs in source countries as a conflict over scarce inputs in successive
levels of the production and trafficking chain, and study how policies aimed at different …