Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to … circumstances. This study uses national, prospective, longitudinal data from the Journeys Home Survey to examine how violence … experiencing violence and housing insecurity in subsequent periods. The study is one of the first to investigate these …

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 … problems of the sample and the key issue of endogeneity of violence. The main results show that high levels of violence …

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 …