Tommy E. Murphy

TL;DR: The authors introduced the Americas in the Great Divergence debate by measuring real wages in various North and South American cities between colonization and independence, and comparing them to Europe and Asia, finding that for much of the period, North America was the most prosperous region of the world, while Latin America was much poorer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present two independent and complementary studies on the impact of the mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns on domestic violence in Argentina, highlighting the need to complement the mobility restrictions imposed to combat the COVID -19 pandemic with specific services to respond to the domestic violence that the lockdown generates.

TL;DR: This article studied the origins and economic and social consequences of some of the most prominent drug trafficking organizations in the world: the Mexican cartels and found that at the local level there is a positive link between cartel presence and better socioeconomic outcomes (e.g. lower marginalization rates, lower illiteracy rates, higher salaries), better public services, and higher tax revenues, evidence that is consistent with the known stylized fact that drug lords tend have great support in the local communities in which they operate.

TL;DR: In this article, a first look at standards of living in a series of North American and Latin American cities was taken, and the authors found that real wages were higher in North America than in Latin America from the very early colonial period: four times the World Bank Poverty Line (WBPL) in North American while only two times the WBPL in Latin American.