“…The sample is representative of urban Mexico for our age group of interest. In addition to ensuring our sample was representative of common sociodemographic characteristics, such as income and education level, we also employed a unique strategy to ensure it is representative of the various levels of municipal violence across the country (García-Ponce et al 2023;Laterzo 2021b). Within this strategy we particularly considered three variables that capture variations in violence at this geographic level: homicide rates, reported non-homicide crime, and perceived levels of violence.…”