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Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior
Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo; Camacho, Adriana; … - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289839
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Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior
Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily; … - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627339
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior
Baez, Javier - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099702
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Don't Make War, Make Elections - Franchise Extension and Violence in XIXth-Century Colombia
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2013
This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captured by an increase in voting rights, on the incidence of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and conflict is challenging, not only because of conceptual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085354
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Local Media : Expansion of Radio and Political Accountability. Evidence from Colombia
Salcedo-Monroy, Dario - 2015
Access to more information by a group of voters may represent more knowledge about the political system and incentivize people to make better choices. In this paper I argue that mass media have an impact over voters' knowledge, reflected on one of the main forms of political participation that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027633
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Quantifying the value of a political connection : the case of presidential elections in Colombia
Vaughan, Daniel - 2013
Using a novel biographical database including all Presidents and presidential candidates in Colombia for the period 1833-2010 I show that the value of a political connection can be quantified in terms of the votes transferred within a political network. I consider three types of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206018
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Labor market indicator for Colombia
Cristiano-Botia, Deicy J.; Hernandez-Bejarano, Manuel Dario - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-32
Although the unemployment rate is traditionally used to diagnose the current state of the labor market, this indicator … unemployment GAP. This indicator is useful for policy analysis as it is useful to forecast headline inflation, it also complements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012594304
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Armed Conflict and Unemployment in Colombia : The Role of US Interdiction Policy
Pulido-Velasquez, Manuel Alejandro; Alegría … - 2022
estimate the impact of high-intensity conflict on unemployment in Colombia. Using synthetic control method and difference …-in-differences models, we find that over the period 1994-2014, the high-intensity armed conflict raised unemployment rate in Colombia by … unemployment effects for women compared to men, possibly reflecting changes in household dynamics among conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076507
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From Severance Pay to Self-Insurance: Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002
In 1990 Colombia replaced its traditional system of severance payments with a new system of severance payments savings accounts (SPSAs). Although severance payments often are justified on the grounds that they provide insurance against earnings loss, they also increase costs for employers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262813
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Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia
Mesnard, Alice - 2009
This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for the evaluation of the 'Familias en Acción' welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275745