Researchers
Beatriz Magaloni (Principal Investigator) - Stanford University
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros - UCSD
Gabriela Calderón - Stanford University
Gustavo Robles - Stanford University
Edgar Franco Vivanco - Stanford University
Jorge Olarte - Stanford University

We study the dynamics and logic of extortion in Mexico’s drug war. Mexican drug trafficking organizations have diversified into a host of other illicit activities, protection rackets, oil and fuel theft, kidnapping, human smuggling, prostitution, money laundering, weapons trafficking, auto theft and domestic drug sales. The project seeks to measure, through the use of list-experiments, patterns of extortion by both criminal organization and the police, and the extent to which drug cartels coopt civil society and become embedded in the social fabric.

Contact
Beatriz Magaloni