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Colombia. We combine a detailed satellite-based longitudinal dataset on forest cover across municipalities over the period 1990 … peace negotiations with the government. Further, after the demobilization the deforestation effect of the paramilitaries … disappears. We explore a number of potential mechanisms that may explain the conflict-driven deforestation, and show evidence …
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access. We report two field experiments conducted in Colombia and Kenya. The Irrigation Game was used to explore the … much more effectively in Colombia. We also find that the asymmetric appropriation did reduce cooperation, though the …
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This paper measures the impact of crime on firm investment by exploiting variation in kidnappings in Colombia from 1996 …
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Colombia. Using voter censuses and disaggregated electoral returns from 1991-1998, I show that residents in urban neighborhoods …
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Colombia. Con este breve recuento histórico, más que una cronología detallada de acontecimientos, se busca detectar elementos …
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This paper proposes a new identification strategy to estimate the causal impact of illicit drug markets on violence using a panel of Colombian municipalities covering the period 1994-2008. Using a UNODC survey of Colombian rural households involved in coca cultivation, we estimate the...
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one recent episode in the political history of Colombia, the `parapolitics' scandal featuring politicians colluding with …
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of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … attempting to overcome the identification problem. In 1853, Colombia established universal male suffrage. Using a simple … violence in nineteenth-century Colombia was a technology for political elites to compete for the rents from power, and that …
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Behavior in the local commons is usually embedded in a context of regulations and social norms that the group of users face. Such norms and rules affect how individuals value material and non-material incentives and therefore determine their decision to cooperate or over extract the resources...
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Al final del año 1998, un año de pleno crecimiento económico después de largos períodos de violencia y enfrentamientos armados, Nicaragua fue azotada por el huracán Mitch que afectó al 19% de su población. Este estudio tiene como objetivo medir el impacto económico que tuvo este...
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