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the probability that they will experience domestic violence in their marriages as adults. In particular, we investigate … violence between 2004 and 2012. We find that female exposure to conflict violence increases their later risk of being a … perpetrator and a victim of domestic violence. The average effects for women affected by the conflict are small, although they …
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Based on in-depth interviews with former child soldiers in Colombia, this article presents the findings from fieldwork … conducted among demobilized child soldiers in Colombia. The findings add to the state of knowledge by going in-depth into the …
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This work analyses the influence of economic variables, poverty and armed conflict on violence in Colombia. For this … estimated in order to determine the effects of these variables on violence in Colombia from 1950 to 2006. Socioeconomic … political variables that have a notable influence upon the determinants of violence in Colombia. More precisely, variables …
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, poverty and violence in Colombia. The survey explores some of the characteristics, connexions and realities that have been … documented in the existing literature on the incidence that those variables may have on violence dynamics. Based on observed … localisation of violent groups, and the production of illegal crops may exert on the high levels of violence experienced by some …
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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 …
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In most empirical studies on civil wars, causes and determinants of conflict have been hitherto explored assuming that actors involved were either unitary or stable. However, if this intra-group homogeneity assumption does not hold, empirical econometric estimates may be biased and policy...
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civil conflict. In 2014, a ceasefire with the oldest Latin-American guerrilla took place in Colombia and a peace agreement … violence against social leaders. These actors represent the interests of their communities, oppose the expansion of illicit … leaders' exposure to violence. We showed that the LRP significantly reduced the killing of social leaders. Yet, the effect …
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Alongside negative feedback loops between violence and development, several studies find a positive and significant … areas. We conduct two artefactual field experiments in Bogotá (Colombia) to address these issues. Our methodological … strategy is to experimentally manipulate the recall of violence, either through a direct question or through a monetary loss in …
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