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conflict is modeled as a Bayesian game on which each player's valuation is drawn independently from arbitrary distributions. We … predictable movements in the conflict's dissipation. We focus on arbitrary contest success functions and arbitrary independent …
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. On the positive side, we find that Facebook access decreases internal conflict, with evidence that this reflects …
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Spanish Abstract: ¿Pueden los medios determinar el éxito o fracaso de las reformas institucionales? Estudiamos la adopción del voto secreto en los Estados Unidos y el papel de los medios de comunicación en este paso crucial para mejorar la democracia. Utilizando una estrategia de...
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This paper studies the effects of disclosing information about politician misbehavior on trust in public institutions. I use news bulletins from the main anti-corruption agency in Colombia announcing disciplinary prosecutions against municipal mayors. I exploit the timing of the bulletin's...
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In this paper, we study how between-group wealth and size heterogeneity affect success probabilities as well as aggregate rent-seeking efforts when two groups compete for the allocation of a pure public good. Unlike with previous models, we measure the utility cost of rent-seeking in terms of...
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of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … conflict is challenging, not only because of conceptual problems in defining and measuring democracy, but also because … of one simple, measurable dimension of democracy (the size of the franchise) on conflict, while at the same time …
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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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We model the war on drugs in source countries as a conflict over scarce inputs of successive levels of the production …
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panel data set for Colombian coffee-growers. We identify two channels. First, we examine the direct impact of conflict on … agricultural production through the change in the percentage of the farm allocated to coffee. Second, we explore how conflict …
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Spanish Abstract: Este documento recopila y analiza la evidencia disponible sobre los vínculos entre oportunidades económicas, empleo y violencia asociada a jóvenes en América Latina y el Caribe. Como parte de una iniciativa liderada por El Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el...
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