This paper explores the importance of the risk of violence on the decision making of rural households, using a unique …), we develop a dynamic consumption model where economic risk and the risk of violence are explicitly included. Theoretical … violence and the presence of illegal crops on the decision to continue coffee production and on the percentage of the farm …

adversities. Using cross-sectional data from a household survey in Colombia and administrative data on crime and violence, we find … that a greater subjective feeling of scarcity (β=0.45, IC_95%:[0.082, 0.979]) and greater exposure to violence (β …

displacement, and intimate partner violence in two different conflict-affected settings: Colombia and Liberia. This paper draws on … partner violence. Displaced women in Colombia and Liberia have between 40 and 55 percent greater odds of experiencing past … population was comprised of women and girls. Displacement and conflict substantially heighten the risk of gender-based violence …

Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted …. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … decades of fine-grained violence data by type, alongside hundreds of annual risk factors. We predict violence one year ahead …

This paper examines the impact of urban violence on the standardized test scores of public school students in Medellin … year fixed effects, allowing me to control for the endogeneity of violence. I find that each additional homicide per year … local violence is shown to induce higher levels of teacher turnover, although this may actually improve the average …

. Using data from individuals residing in two war-torn regions in Colombia, I analyze how direct exposure to violence induces … changes in risk attitudes, and find that more severe and recent episodes of violence bring about higher levels of risk … incidence of anxiety disorders. Violence can thus thwart the economic recovery of victims and have transcending impacts on …

Colombia. It examines changes in the labor supply from on-farm to off-farm labor as a means of coping with the violent shock … decrease in consumption. The results suggest that in rural Colombia, labor markets are a limited alternative for coping with …

This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult … to carry to a new place. When confronted with exogenous violence, households are expected to consider migration, and …

Colombia, we bring together data on expected upward mobility, exposure to violence, and symptoms of psychological trauma. After …We explore the impact of violence on perceived prospects of upward mobility. For a sample of victims of violence in … controlling for material losses and current circumstances, we find that exposure to more severe violence leads victims' perceived …

investment. The paper analyses the long-run impact of the violence on the Colombia's economic growth, using annual time series … impacto de largo plazo de la violencia en el crecimiento económico de Colombia, en el período 1950-2010. La evidencia … instability, reflected in violence, can destroy the endowments of physical and human capital in the economy and, discourage …