I study the causal effect of violence against social leaders on coca cultivation and land restitution requests in the … provide evidence that the start of the violence against social leaders increases hectares of coca by a magnitude of at least 0 … action capacity of civil society, which is depreciated as more violence is exerted on social leaders …

violence on social capital presented in the literature. I study this question in the context of Colombia by exploiting changes …How does violence affect social capital? I argue that its impact depends on two factors: i) the ability to identify the … perpetrating group, and ii) the intensity of the violence. These factors help to reconcile the seemingly contradictory effects of …

This paper examines how trust on institutions and organizations are shaped according to age and exposure to violence … municipalities that were exposed to violence in comparison to municipalities that were not exposed. From 1950's to the mid 1960's …, Colombia experienced a period of intense civil wars and conflicts between social classes known as La Violencia. Using evidence …

country. Justice Houses were supposed to reduce violence and impunity by helping citizens negotiate the complex legal system … by paramilitaries as well as for routinized forms of gender, sexual, and domestic violence …

violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own … childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore …

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 …