The document presents an economic model of the insurgency in Colombia like an economically rational illegal activity …

explore these strategies through choices of firms operating in Colombia to expose key literature gaps and suggest five new …

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 … conflict through the labor market. These findings not only suggest that the high-intensity conflict had placed Colombia …

International Development (USAID)— on the intensity of municipality-level armed conflict in Colombia, for the period 2009-2013. To … in Colombia. Specifically, I instrument foreign aid with the interaction between the United States GDP and municipality …

. Looking at the recent experience of Colombia, and using a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we study the …