Visual Allusions to the Mexican-American War

A Distaste for War at Walden Pond: Thoreau's The Bean-Field, Theories of Personal Property, and the Mexican-American War

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War∗

Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent years have also witnessed large-scale efforts to combat trafficking, spearheaded by Mexico’s conservative PAN party. This study examines the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Regression discontinuity estimates show that drug-related violence increases substantially after ...

Tra � cking Networks and the Mexican Drug War ⇤

Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent years have also witnessed large-scale e↵orts to combat tra cking, spearheaded by Mexico’s conservative PAN party. This study examines the direct and spillover e↵ects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Regression discontinuity estimates show that drug-related violence increases substantially after clos...

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War∗ (Job Market Paper)

Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico during the past five years, claiming over 40,000 lives. This study examines how drug traffickers’ economic objectives influence the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. By exploiting variation from close mayoral elections and a network model of drug trafficking, the study develops three sets of re...

Unconventional Warfare in the American Civil War