Laura H. Atuesta

Laura H. Atuesta es profesora visitante en la Escuela de Finanzas, Economía y Gobierno de la Universidad EAFIT en Medellín, Colombia y profesora-investigadora titular y coordinadora del Programa de Política de Drogas del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) en Aguascalientes, México. Ella es maestra en Economía y doctora en Economía Aplicada de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana Champaign. Sus intereses de investigación están relacionados con la economía del crimen organizado y el efecto de la violencia en contextos urbanos y rurales. Ha publicado su trabajo en varias revistas internacionales tales como Economics Systems Research, Global Crime, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the International Journal of Drug Policy, and Trends in Organized Crime, entre otras. Laura enseña cursos de evaluación de impacto y políticas públicas a nivel de pregrado y posgrado y ofrece cursos de capacitación en evaluación de políticas públicas a funcionarios públicos en América Latina. 

Laura H. Atuesta is a visiting professor in the School of Finance, Economics, and Government at the University of EAFIT in Medellín, Colombia and an associate professor and coordinator of the Drug Policy Program at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE- Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She holds a master's in Economics and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are related to the economics of organized crime and the effect of violence on rural and urban settings. She has published her work in Economics Systems Research, Global Crime, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the International Journal of Drug Policy, and Trends in Organized Crime, among others. She teaches impact evaluation courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and offers public policy evaluation training to public officers in Latin America.

• Economía urbana y regional, evaluación de impacto, economía del crimen y la violencia.
• Urban and regional economics, impact evaluation, economics of crime and violence.
  

• ​Atuesta, L. y Monserrat Carrasco. 2023. How frequent and visible criminal violence affects housing prices: evidence from Mexico City (2007-2011), International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-02-2023-0020 
• Atuesta, L. y J.I. Vargas González. 2022. Organized Crime-Related Disappearances in Mexico: evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila, Trends in Organized Crime, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-022-09452-3 
  
• Treviño-Rangel, J., Bejarano-Romero, R., Atuesta, L. y Velázquez-Moreno, S. 2022. Deadly force and denial: the military's legacy in Mexico's 'war on drugs', The International Journal of Human Rights, 25(4): pp, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.1947806 
• Macías Medellín, M. y Atuesta, L. 2021. Constraints and military coordination: How ICTs shape the intensity of rebel violence, Journal of International Interactions, 47(4): 692-719, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2021.1898959 
• Atuesta, L., O.S. Siordia y A. Madrazo Lajous. 2019. The “War on Drugs" in Mexico: (Official) Database of Events between December 2006 and November 2011, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63(7): 1765-1789, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022002718817093 
• Atuesta, L. y G.J.D. Hewings. 2019. Housing appreciation patterns in low-income neighborhoods: exploring gentrification in Chicago, Journal of Housing Economics, 44: 34-47 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2018.08.005 
• Flores Martínez, I. y L. Atuesta. 2018. Mourning our Dead: The impact of Mexico's war on drugs on citizens' depressive symptoms, International Journal of Drug Policy, 60: 65-73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.07.004 
• Atuesta, L. y S. Pérez-Dávila. 2018. Fragmentation and Cooperation: The evolution of organized crime in Mexico, Trends in Organized Crime, 21: 235-261, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-017-9301-z 
• Atuesta, L., J.E. Ibarra-Olivo, N. Lozano-Gracia y U. Deichmann. 2018. Access to employment and property values in Mexico, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 70: 142-154, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.03.005 
• Atuesta, L., y Y. Soares. 2018. Urban Upgrading in Rio de Janeiro: Evidence from the Favela-Bairro Program, Urban Studies, 55(1): 53-70, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016669290 
• Atuesta, L. y A. Ponce. 2017. Meet the Narco: Increased competition among criminal organisations and the explosion of violence in Mexico, Global Crime, 8(4): 375-402, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2017.1354520 
• Atuesta, L. 2016. Narcomessages as a way to analyze the evolution of organized crime in Mexico, Global Crime, 18(2): 100-121, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2016.1248556 
• Atuesta, L., y D. Paredes, 2016. Do Mexicans flee from violence? The effects of drug-related violence on the migration decisions in Mexico, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(3): 2015: 480-502, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1079122 
• Atuesta, L. y G.J.D. Hewings, 2013. Economic Welfare Analysis of the Legalization of Drugs: A CGE Microsimulation Model for Colombia, Economic Systems Research, 25(2), 190-211, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2012.728130 
• Atuesta, L. y D. Paredes, 2012. A Spatial Price Index for Colombia using a Microeconomic Approach, Applied Economic Letters 19 (18), 1799-1805, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2012.657347. 
• Atuesta, L. & Pérez-Dávila, S. (2023). “A falta de estado, ¿militares? Vacíos de poder y la contingencia sanitaria por COVID-19, en Guerra, E.E. & Atuesta L., Drogas y violencias en tiempos de pandemia. Consecuencias y respuestas. Programa de Política de Drogas PPD, ISBN: 978-607-59980-0-8. 
• Atuesta, L. (2022). “Capítulo I: Análisis del crimen organizado en México: Fragmentación, diversificación y comunicación", en Ponce A.(ed) Huellas de la guerra: Los costos sociales de la violencia criminal en México, Editorial CIDE Investigación e Ideas, ISBN: 978-607-8791-31-6. 
• Atuesta, L. & Vela E. (2020). Las Dos Guerras: el impacto de los enfrentamientos de las fuerzas armadas en los asesinatos de mujeres en México, Intersecta, https://www.intersecta.org/lasdosguerras/ 
• Atuesta, L. (2020). “The use of violence and the evolution of organized crime: Evidence from Mexico" p. 232-245, in Ireland et al. (eds) (2020), The Handbook of Collective Violence, Routledge Taylor & Francis, New York, USA, ISBN: 9780367186548. 
• Atuesta, L. (2019). “Mexico (cartels)," in The Armed Conflict Survey (2019), The International Institute for Strategic Studies, Routledge, London, ISBN: 978-0-367-27358-3. 
• Atuesta, L. (2018). “Militarización de la lucha contra el narcotráfico: los operativos militares como estrategia para el combate al crimen organizado," en Atuesta L. y Madrazo Lajous, A. (2018). Las violencias: en busca de la política pública detrás de la guerra contra las drogas, Editorial CIDE Coyuntura y Ensayo, ISBN: 978-607-8508-25-9. 
• Atuesta, L. (2015). “¿Cuál es el impacto del consumo de drogas ilícitas en la probabilidad de ser sentenciado por un delito contra la salud," p. 109-140, en Pérez-Correa, C. (2015). De la detención a la prisión: la justicia penal a ensayo, Editorial CIDE Coyuntura y Ensayo, ISBN: 978-607-9367-52-7. 
• Atuesta, L. (ed) (2014) Drug Policy in Mexico 2006-2012: Analysis and Results of a Prohibitionist Policy, reporte preparado para el Monitor del Programa de Política de Drogas del CIDE. 
• Atuesta, L. (2014). “Addressing the Costs of Prohibition: Internally Displaced Populations in Colombia and Mexico," en Ending the Drug Wars, Report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy, London School of Economics, LSE Ideas, 2014, p. 49-54.