Diffusion of crime control benefits: forced eradication and coca crops in Colombia

Publicado en

• Spatial Economic Analysis

Resumen

• One explanation for the increasing number of hectares of coca is that eradication strategies displace coca crops but fail to completely clear affected areas. In the drug policy literature, that dynamic shifting is commonly known as the balloon effect. This study integrates georeferenced agricultural data through spatially explicit econometric models to test the hypothesis that forced eradication displaces coca crops. Using annual data for 1116 contiguous municipalities in Colombia, we estimate a spatial Durbin error model. Our results suggest that, on average, aerial fumigation in a municipality diffuses the benefits of this crime control strategy to neighbouring municipalities.

autores

• Dávalos, Eleonora
• Morales, Leonardo Fabio

fecha de publicación

• 2023

Área temática

• K42 - Conducta ilegal y aplicación de la ley
• R12 - Distribución espacial y dimensional de la actividad económica regional
• R14 - Modos de uso de la tierra

Enfoque geográfico

• Colombia  Country
• South America  Continent

Líneas de investigación

• coca crops
• drug policy
• eradication
• spatial Durbin error model
• spatial dependence
• spillover

Identificador de objeto digital (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2022.2151642

Volumen

• 292

Issue

• 317