We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … attainment ; school enrollment ; Colombia ; internal displacement ; conflict …

unusual rainfall shock affecting over two million people in both urban and rural Colombia. The results show that these …

the duration of all such conflicts and violence, the less fractionalized countries are today. These results reveal that …

school violence. We identify this effect by exploiting idiosyncratic differences in the distribution of earlier academic … achievement. We consider distinct types of school violence, namely, verbal, relational and physical violence. We find that rank … has a negative effect on both the probability and frequency of perpetrating school violence for all the specific types of …

find short-run increases of insurgency-related violence, police-initiated attacks, and insurgent attacks on civilians. We …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico …, I show that violence has a significant negative impact on plant output, product scope, employment, and capacity …