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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 …
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spatial persistence in the municipal homicide rate in Colombia, as a result of shock increases in the displaced population and … Colombia …
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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 …
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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 …
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appropriate political answer to chronic violence in Colombia as well as in other areas of chronic conflict. …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 …
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Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
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