Laura H Atuesta
Biographic Data
| ID | 289248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura H Atuesta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura H |
| FAMILY NAME | Atuesta |
| SIGNATURE | ATUESTA L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6550-8436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reframing drug-related violence in a changing global landscape: Introduction to the special issue
Drug markets and violence in Colombia: Where do we stand, and how do we move forward
Violence linked to drug markets has been examined from multiple perspectives. In fact, referring to a single type of violence is inaccurate, as violent expressions occur across the different phases of production, trafficking, and commercialization, as well as in relation to substance use. Although Colombia is primarily a producer country, it also experiences other forms of violence connected to drug commercialization, local drug sales, and the es…
Conceptualizing cannabis grey markets: A typology based on the Uruguayan case
The Unbearable Uncertainty of Being on the Front Street-level Military in the Mexican War on Drugs
Since the so-called war on drugs began in Mexico in 2006, the military has been the leading actor in charge of the government's public security policy, undertaking tasks that should be carried out by the police. Analyses of this security strategy are based on quantitative methods and have focused on its results: e.g., an increase in the homicide rate or the committing of human rights violations. In contrast, based on in-depth interviews, this art…
The Connection Between Drug-Related Detentions and Drug-Related Violence: Another Failure of the War on Drugs in Mexico
This paper analyses the relationship between drug-related detentions for possession or petty dealing and drug-related violence. Two theoretical mechanisms are explored: (i) when a dealer is detained, the market is disrupted, and competition increases; (ii) when a consumer is detained, other consumers are deterred and seek new dealers, generating competition among groups and, consequently, increasing violence. These hypotheses are quantitatively e…
Organized crime-related disappearances in Mexico: Evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila
Deadly force and denial: The military's legacy in Mexico's ‘war on drugs’
This article explores the military's use of deadly force in contemporary Mexico. Annually, roughly 50,000 soldiers patrol the streets in the context of the ‘war on drugs', which began in 2006 and continues to this day. How many people have the military killed, detained, or injured during ‘police operations'? The information about what the military do has been concealed for years. Recently, after years of secrecy, the military made these facts pub…
Constraints and military coordination: How ICTs shape the intensity of rebel violence
Why and how do information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape the intensity of rebel violence? Recent studies find that ICTs can both increase and decrease such violence. We argue that, during civil wars, this effect depends on the type of ICTs. Mobile phones give rebels better military coordination to organize violence. In contrast, the internet increases the constraints of rebel groups to use violence. On the one hand, the internet inc…
The “War on Drugs” in Mexico: (Official) Database of Events between December 2006 and November 2011
The objective of this text is to describe the three categories that the Drug Policy Program at the Center for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE-PPD) database comprises, their limitations, and their main features. Additionally, we explain what we believe to be the source of the database we originally received and analyze its accuracy by comparing it with public records. We describe the validation and codification processes the database was …
Mourning our dead: The impact of Mexico’s war on drugs on citizens’ depressive symptoms
Urban upgrading in Rio de Janeiro: Evidence from the Favela-Bairro programme
This paper estimates average treatment effects and distributional and locational effects of the Favela-Bairro programme at the household level on direct outputs and on property values. Not surprisingly, households in treated neighbourhoods are better off in terms of the direct outputs delivered by the programme. However, in terms of property values, at the average level, the intervention was not translated on appreciation of housing values, sugge…
Meet the Narco: Increased competition among criminal organisations and the explosion of violence in Mexico
Several previous studies have found that interventions by security forces against criminal organisations result in increased violence related to organised crime. However, much less is known about how and why this effect occurs. Our study not only identifies the causal mechanisms that explain this outcome, but also evaluates the empirical validity of these mechanisms. Employing a novel data set, we find that following security-force intervention, …
Narcomessages as a way to analyse the evolution of organised crime in Mexico
Drug-related homicides in Mexico have increased to levels never before seen and organised crime has evolved accordingly, becoming more fragmented and diverse. This work analyses the evolution of organised crime and drug-related violence in Mexico by examining how drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) communicate through the messages left next to executed bodies from 2007 to 2011. Results suggest that the use of narcomessages has changed and devel…
Do Mexicans flee from violence? The effects of drug-related violence on migration decisions in Mexico
This paper attempts to identify the existence of displacement in Mexico caused by drug-related violence. We identify two types of migrants: (i) migrants moving from nonviolent to violent states, driven by better economic opportunities and less expensive cost of living at destination and (ii) migrants moving from violent to nonviolent states: they still migrate even if the cost of living at destination is more expensive and economic opportunities …
The “War on Drugs” in Mexico: (Official) Database of Events between December 2006 and November 2011
The objective of this text is to describe the three categories that the Drug Policy Program at the Center for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE-PPD) database comprises, their limitations, and their main features. Additionally, we explain what we believe to be the source of the database we originally received and analyze its accuracy by comparing it with public records. We describe the validation and codification processes the database was …
Meet the Narco: Increased competition among criminal organisations and the explosion of violence in Mexico
Several previous studies have found that interventions by security forces against criminal organisations result in increased violence related to organised crime. However, much less is known about how and why this effect occurs. Our study not only identifies the causal mechanisms that explain this outcome, but also evaluates the empirical validity of these mechanisms. Employing a novel data set, we find that following security-force intervention, …
Do Mexicans flee from violence? The effects of drug-related violence on migration decisions in Mexico
This paper attempts to identify the existence of displacement in Mexico caused by drug-related violence. We identify two types of migrants: (i) migrants moving from nonviolent to violent states, driven by better economic opportunities and less expensive cost of living at destination and (ii) migrants moving from violent to nonviolent states: they still migrate even if the cost of living at destination is more expensive and economic opportunities …
Urban upgrading in Rio de Janeiro: Evidence from the Favela-Bairro programme
This paper estimates average treatment effects and distributional and locational effects of the Favela-Bairro programme at the household level on direct outputs and on property values. Not surprisingly, households in treated neighbourhoods are better off in terms of the direct outputs delivered by the programme. However, in terms of property values, at the average level, the intervention was not translated on appreciation of housing values, sugge…
Narcomessages as a way to analyse the evolution of organised crime in Mexico
Drug-related homicides in Mexico have increased to levels never before seen and organised crime has evolved accordingly, becoming more fragmented and diverse. This work analyses the evolution of organised crime and drug-related violence in Mexico by examining how drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) communicate through the messages left next to executed bodies from 2007 to 2011. Results suggest that the use of narcomessages has changed and devel…
Deadly force and denial: The military's legacy in Mexico's ‘war on drugs’
This article explores the military's use of deadly force in contemporary Mexico. Annually, roughly 50,000 soldiers patrol the streets in the context of the ‘war on drugs', which began in 2006 and continues to this day. How many people have the military killed, detained, or injured during ‘police operations'? The information about what the military do has been concealed for years. Recently, after years of secrecy, the military made these facts pub…
Constraints and military coordination: How ICTs shape the intensity of rebel violence
Why and how do information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape the intensity of rebel violence? Recent studies find that ICTs can both increase and decrease such violence. We argue that, during civil wars, this effect depends on the type of ICTs. Mobile phones give rebels better military coordination to organize violence. In contrast, the internet increases the constraints of rebel groups to use violence. On the one hand, the internet inc…
Narcomessages as a way to analyse the evolution of organised crime in Mexico
Drug-related homicides in Mexico have increased to levels never before seen and organised crime has evolved accordingly, becoming more fragmented and diverse. This work analyses the evolution of organised crime and drug-related violence in Mexico by examining how drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) communicate through the messages left next to executed bodies from 2007 to 2011. Results suggest that the use of narcomessages has changed and devel…
Do Mexicans flee from violence? The effects of drug-related violence on migration decisions in Mexico
This paper attempts to identify the existence of displacement in Mexico caused by drug-related violence. We identify two types of migrants: (i) migrants moving from nonviolent to violent states, driven by better economic opportunities and less expensive cost of living at destination and (ii) migrants moving from violent to nonviolent states: they still migrate even if the cost of living at destination is more expensive and economic opportunities …
Meet the Narco: Increased competition among criminal organisations and the explosion of violence in Mexico
Several previous studies have found that interventions by security forces against criminal organisations result in increased violence related to organised crime. However, much less is known about how and why this effect occurs. Our study not only identifies the causal mechanisms that explain this outcome, but also evaluates the empirical validity of these mechanisms. Employing a novel data set, we find that following security-force intervention, …
Mourning our dead: The impact of Mexico’s war on drugs on citizens’ depressive symptoms
Urban upgrading in Rio de Janeiro: Evidence from the Favela-Bairro programme
This paper estimates average treatment effects and distributional and locational effects of the Favela-Bairro programme at the household level on direct outputs and on property values. Not surprisingly, households in treated neighbourhoods are better off in terms of the direct outputs delivered by the programme. However, in terms of property values, at the average level, the intervention was not translated on appreciation of housing values, sugge…
The “War on Drugs” in Mexico: (Official) Database of Events between December 2006 and November 2011
The objective of this text is to describe the three categories that the Drug Policy Program at the Center for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE-PPD) database comprises, their limitations, and their main features. Additionally, we explain what we believe to be the source of the database we originally received and analyze its accuracy by comparing it with public records. We describe the validation and codification processes the database was …
Deadly force and denial: The military's legacy in Mexico's ‘war on drugs’
This article explores the military's use of deadly force in contemporary Mexico. Annually, roughly 50,000 soldiers patrol the streets in the context of the ‘war on drugs', which began in 2006 and continues to this day. How many people have the military killed, detained, or injured during ‘police operations'? The information about what the military do has been concealed for years. Recently, after years of secrecy, the military made these facts pub…
Constraints and military coordination: How ICTs shape the intensity of rebel violence
Why and how do information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape the intensity of rebel violence? Recent studies find that ICTs can both increase and decrease such violence. We argue that, during civil wars, this effect depends on the type of ICTs. Mobile phones give rebels better military coordination to organize violence. In contrast, the internet increases the constraints of rebel groups to use violence. On the one hand, the internet inc…
Organized crime-related disappearances in Mexico: Evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila
Conceptualizing cannabis grey markets: A typology based on the Uruguayan case
The Unbearable Uncertainty of Being on the Front Street-level Military in the Mexican War on Drugs
Since the so-called war on drugs began in Mexico in 2006, the military has been the leading actor in charge of the government's public security policy, undertaking tasks that should be carried out by the police. Analyses of this security strategy are based on quantitative methods and have focused on its results: e.g., an increase in the homicide rate or the committing of human rights violations. In contrast, based on in-depth interviews, this art…
The Connection Between Drug-Related Detentions and Drug-Related Violence: Another Failure of the War on Drugs in Mexico
This paper analyses the relationship between drug-related detentions for possession or petty dealing and drug-related violence. Two theoretical mechanisms are explored: (i) when a dealer is detained, the market is disrupted, and competition increases; (ii) when a consumer is detained, other consumers are deterred and seek new dealers, generating competition among groups and, consequently, increasing violence. These hypotheses are quantitatively e…
Reframing drug-related violence in a changing global landscape: Introduction to the special issue
Drug markets and violence in Colombia: Where do we stand, and how do we move forward
Violence linked to drug markets has been examined from multiple perspectives. In fact, referring to a single type of violence is inaccurate, as violent expressions occur across the different phases of production, trafficking, and commercialization, as well as in relation to substance use. Although Colombia is primarily a producer country, it also experiences other forms of violence connected to drug commercialization, local drug sales, and the es…
Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)