Marco Alcocer

Book Project

Cartels Unbound: How Mexico's War on Drugs Fueled Cartel Diversification and Territorial Expansion
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Publications

Alcocer, Marco. Falabella, Leonardo. Lange, Alex. Smith, Nicholas. Feeley, Maureen (2024) "Supplemental online resources improve data literacy education: Evidence from a social science methods course",  PLOS One, Forthcoming.

Alcocer, Marco (2024) "Increasing Intergovernmental Coordination to Fight Crime: Evidence from a Police Reform in Mexico",  Political Science Research and Methods, pp. 1–10. doi:10.1017/psrm.2024.31.

Alcocer, Marco (2023) "Integrating Potential Outcomes and Cuasal Mechanisms to Guide Multi-Method Research", Qualitative & Multimethod Research, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8418913

Signoret, Patrick, Marco Alcocer, Cecilia Farfan-Mendez, and Fernanda Sobrino (2021) "Mapping Criminal Organizations in Mexico: State Panel 2007-2015", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N0KGCZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1
- In the media: El FinancieroMexico Today (by Reforma)IMER NoticiasAl Calor PoliticoCuestione 

Working Papers

Drug Wars, Organized Crime Expansion, and State Capture: Evidence from Mexico ( job market paper )
- [Draft]

Breaking Ranks: Profits, Survival, and the Fragmentation of Criminal Organizations (with Lucía Hesles)
- [Draft]

Women Politicians and Violence Against Women: Evidence from Mexico (with Rachel Skillman and Angie Torres-Beltran). Revise and resubmit.
- [​Draft] [Appendix] Pre-Analysis Plan: [pdf] [OSF Registry]

Criminal Dynamics and Violence Against State Officials in Mexico (with Megan Erickson)
- [Draft]

Criminal Conflicts and the Assassination of Law Enforcement Officers in Mexico. Under review.
- Draft available upon request

A Framework for Integrating Causal Effects and Causal Mechanisms in Multi-Method Research
- Draft available upon request

Queenpins: Women Leadership and Violence in Organized Crime (with Fernanda Quintanilla Domínguez)
- Draft available upon request

Work in Progress

Organized Crime and Violence Against Migrants in Mexico

Party Alternation on Institutional Quality and its Consequences (with Rodrigo Canales and Alina Bitran)

In Preparation

From Drug Lords to Warlords

Investigating Organized Crime: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment of Judicial Police in Mexico

Improving Collaboration to Investigate Crime: Evidence from Law Enforcement Officers in Mexico (with Jonathan Furszyfer)