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in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health …
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From 1997 to 2005, an astonishing 5,200 million USD was invested to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, the world …-monetary factors that affect the coca cultivation decision: religion, legitimacy, remoteness, and poverty are found to be important. We …
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Approximately 1.2% of Colombia's GNP is spent every year on the war on drugs, but very little is known about coca … with coca and non-coca farmers living in Putumayo, Colombia. We find that farmers react to economic incentives and hence …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia and find that higher conflict … from Colombia. …
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living in a coca growing area in Colombia. We find that while eradication and alternative development decrease coca supply …
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small-scale tobacco farmers in Colombia. We analyze the impacts of access to the insurance on household financial outcomes …
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We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy re- ects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
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We propose a exible model of infectious dynamics with a single endogenous state variable and economic choices. We characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically is followed by policies to stimulate activity. (ii)...
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of an epidemic. We prove that optimal policy is continuous in the state but discontinuous in the deterministic arrival …
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poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …
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