Research - Juan David Gelvez

Selected peer-reviewed publications

See the full list of my publications on Google Scholar.

R&R. The Electoral Costs of the War on Drugs. Political Science Research and Methods. Working Paper here.
R&R. The Politics of Crime Prevention: Evidence From Colombia. Political Studies. Working Paper here.
Conditionally Accepted. Who should guide climate policy? Public opinion evidence from Latin America. The Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública (RLOP). (With Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham and Flavia Batista).
1. Public Opinion on Forced Eradication: The Role of Collective Dissent and Race in Colombia. Latin American Politics & Society. Paper here. (With Juan C Angulo).
1. Predicting Police and Military Violence: Evidence from Colombia and Mexico Using Machine Learning Models. Nature - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Paper here. Media coverage here and here.
1. Rewards, Sanctions, and Trust in the Police: Evidence from Colombia. Policing and Society. Working paper here. Published paper here. (With Cesar Mantilla and María P Nieto).
1. Climate Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Forced Displacement: A 23-Year Spatial Regression Analysis in Colombia. Paper here. (With Leo Bauer). Social Science Quarterly.
1. Los nadies y las nadies: The Effect of Peacebuilding on Political Behavior in Colombia. Latin American Politics & Society (With Marcus Johnson). Paper here, Slides here, and Code here.
1. Prediciendo el crimen en ciudades intermedias: un modelo de “machine learning” en Bucaramanga, Colombia. URVIO- Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de Seguridad. FLACSO, Ecuador. (With María P. Nieto and Carlos Rocha) Paper here
1. Trato procesal y uso de la detención preventiva en una muestra de audiencias de control de garantías en Bogotá y Cali. In Cuadernos de Economía. (With Andrés Rengifo, Lorena Avila, Lucía Ramírez and Paula Mora). Paper here.
1. ¿Cuáles determinantes se relacionan con la percepción de inseguridad? Un análisis estadístico y espacial para la ciudad de Bogotá, D. C.. In Revista Criminalidad. Paper here.

Work in progress

Crime, Police, and Illicit Drugs

Marijuana Legalization and Cross-Country Violence Dynamics. (With Juan C Angulo).
When Do Citizens Reject Tough-on-Crime Measures? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Brazil. Pre-Analysis Plan Here.
When Is Crime Trending? Evidence from Latin America. (With Giancarlo Visconti and Yuri Saldarriaga).

Climate Disasters Politics and Policy

Climate Disasters, Deservingness, and Public Opinion about Government Assistance. (With Isabella Alcañiz) Pre-analysis plan here.
The (In)visibility of Race in Colombia’s Climate Disaster Assistance. (With Isabella Alcañiz) Pre-analysis plan here and Poster here. Working Paper
Weathering the Ballot Box:Retrospective Voting and Climate Disasters in Colombia. Working Paper here.

Selected policy papers

1. Environmental Impacts of Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank. Work in Progress.
1. ¿Cómo votan los colombianos? Comportamiento electoral en las elecciones presidenciales de 2014, 2018 y 2022 a nivel de puesto de votación. Policy Brief here.
1. Costly norm enforcement through sanctions and rewards: An experiment with Colombian future police officers. Policy Brief here.
1. What works to prevent crime? Effective strategies to improve citizen security policies. Published in Centro de Estudios sobre Seguridad y Drogas, Universidad de Los Andes. Policy paper here.
1. Who are the coca growers? Published in Fundación Ideas para la Paz (FIP). Policy paper here.
1. How is the substitution of illicit crops going? Challenges, current dilemmas, and the urgency of a consensus Policy paper here.