influence adolescents’ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities …

Approximately 1.2% of Colombia's GNP is spent every year on the war on drugs, but very little is known about coca … of land to use for its cultivation, we develop an extended version of the portfolio model of crime that considers the … with coca and non-coca farmers living in Putumayo, Colombia. We find that farmers react to economic incentives and hence …

-wing paramilitary groups on the one hand, and left-wing guerrilla groups on the other. Moreover, a high proportion of women in Colombia …