Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302643 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17126
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in Honduran municipalities located along drug transport routes changes when coca production in Colombia grows or contracts. Our results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for transit country workers and has greater effects on women than men.
Subjects: 
drug markets
violence
labor market outcomes
gender inequality
instrumental variables
JEL: 
C26
O17
J01
J16
J40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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