local democracy in Colombia, a country mired in civil conflict. We find that when the price of oil rises, legislators …

of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … attempting to overcome the identification problem. In 1853, Colombia established universal male suffrage. Using a simple … violence in nineteenth-century Colombia was a technology for political elites to compete for the rents from power, and that …

Colombia. Using voter censuses and disaggregated electoral returns from 1991-1998, I show that residents in urban neighborhoods …

electoral performance of incumbent mayors that experienced the negative popularity shock resulting from a municipal government …

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA … captured by political patronage. -- Conditional Cash Transfers ; voting behavior ; Colombia …

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …