appropriate political answer to chronic violence in Colombia as well as in other areas of chronic conflict. "--World Bank web site …"Households in rural Colombia are confronted with a variety of violent threats: attacks and displacement threats by … guerrillas and paramilitaries, gang violence among drug traffickers, and high common delinquency. In this context, households …

"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult … to carry to a new place. When confronted with exogenous violence, households are expected to consider migration, and …

This paper examines the relationship between maternal exposure to violence during pregnancy and newborn birthweight … Colombian municipalities. Exposure to violence in early pregnancy had a large negative impact on birthweight, primarily for boys … evidence exposes the importance of parental responses in shaping the effect of exposure to violence on newborn health …