Seminar

Past

Landing on Water: Air Interdiction, Drug-Trafficking Displacement, and Violence in the Brazilian Amazon

Rodrigo Soares

  • Date7 March 2024
  • Time 11h00 - 12h30
  • Room Auditorium 4

Abstract

We study a Force-down/Shoot-down intervention in Brazil that led drug-traffickers to shift from air to river routes when transporting cocaine produced in the Andes. Using a unique database with cocaine production, homicides, and the network of rivers in the Amazon, we provide evidence that violence increased in municipalities along river routes originating from Andean producing countries after the policy. We also show that, during the same period, violence in these municipalities became more responsive to cocaine production in origin countries. We document an instance of crime displacement over the three-dimensional space, involving sophisticated adaptations from criminals regarding transportation technologies. (With Leila Pereira and Rafael Pucci)

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  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 10 December 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3 - JJ Laffont

  • Speaker or organiser Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University)

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  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 3 December 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)

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  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 26 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Michela Carlana (Harvard Kennedy School)

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