Based on previous works, treating migration as a development tool, the authors assess the effect of migration on living standards by modeling the impact of having an emigrant household member on the Living Standards Index. As usual in migration related literature, they treat endogenous nature of...

The interest of evaluating the effectiveness of the policies for eradication and alternative development in the control of the production of the coca leave in Colombia has been expanding, mainly because there is no quantitative evidence related to the effect of the enormous investment made for...