Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Roxana Gutierrez-Romero
Author-X-Name-First: Roxana
Author-X-Name-Last: Gutierrez-Romero
Author-Email: r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.
Title: Violence in Guatemala pushes adults and children to seek work in Mexico
Abstract: This article estimates the impact of violence on emigration crossings from Guatemala to Mexico as final destination during 2009-2017. To identify causal effects, we use as instruments the variation in deforestation in Guatemala, and the seizing of cocaine in Colombia. We argue that criminal organizations deforest land in Guatemala, fueling violence and leading to emigration, particularly during exogenous supply shocks to cocaine. A one-point increase in the homicide rate differential between Guatemalan municipalities and Mexico, leads to 211 additional emigration crossings made by male adults. This rise in  violence, also leads to 20 extra emigration crossings made by children.
Length: 31 pages
Creation-Date: 2022-11 
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Classification-JEL: C26, D74, F22, J15, K37. 
Keywords: violence, emigration, unaccompanied children, Central America, deforestation.   
File-URL: http://cgr.sbm.qmul.ac.uk/CGRWP107.pdf
Number: 107
Handle: RePEc:cgs:wpaper:107