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Publications [#325569] of Duncan Thomas

Journal Articles

  1. Brown, R; Montalva, V; Thomas, D; Velásquez, A, Impact of violent crime on risk aversion: Evidence from the mexican drug war, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 101 no. 5 (December, 2019), pp. 892-904 [doi]
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    Whereas attitudes toward risk play an important role in many decisions over the life course, factors that affect those attitudes are not fully understood. Using longitudinal survey data collected in Mexico before and during the Mexican war on drugs, we investigate how risk attitudes change with variation in insecurity and uncertainty brought on by unprecedented changes in local-area violent crime. Exploiting the fact that the timing, virulence, and spatial distribution of changes in violent crime were unanticipated, we establish there is a rise in risk aversion spread across the entire local population as local-area violent crime increases.


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