Research ArticleArticle
Drug Violence and Migration Flows
Lessons from the Mexican Drug War
Sandra Orozco-Aleman and Heriberto Gonzalez-Lozano
Journal of Human Resources, July 2018, 53 (3) 717-749; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.53.3.0215-6948R4
Sandra Orozco-Aleman
Sandra Orozco-Aleman is an assistant professor of economics at the Department of Finance and Economics at Mississippi State University. Heriberto Gonzalez Lozano is a clinical assistant professor of economics at the Department of Finance and Economics at Mississippi State University.
Heriberto Gonzalez-Lozano
Sandra Orozco-Aleman is an assistant professor of economics at the Department of Finance and Economics at Mississippi State University. Heriberto Gonzalez Lozano is a clinical assistant professor of economics at the Department of Finance and Economics at Mississippi State University.

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In this issue
Journal of Human Resources
Vol. 53, Issue 3
1 Jul 2018
Drug Violence and Migration Flows
Sandra Orozco-Aleman, Heriberto Gonzalez-Lozano
Journal of Human Resources Jul 2018, 53 (3) 717-749; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.53.3.0215-6948R4
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- Article
- Abstract
- I. Motivation
- II. Theoretical Framework and Existing Literature
- III. Data
- IV. Empirical Specification
- V. Results: Effect of the Violence on the Outflows of Migrants
- VI. Exclusion Restriction and Robustness Tests
- VII. Perception and Costs of Violence: Differences across Regions
- VIII. Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Footnotes
- References
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