violence in nineteenth-century Colombia was a technology for political elites to compete for the rents from power, and that … of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and … political institutions and violence are jointly determined. We take advantage of an experiment of history to examine the impact …

During the last decade, forced internal displacement in Colombia has been a growing phenomenon closely linked to the … the level of violence at the origin site is not only the dominant factor of displacement behavior, but also that in a …

This paper proposes a new identification strategy to estimate the causal impact of illicit drug markets on violence … municipalities that we use as an instrument to uncover the causal effect of illegal cocaine markets on violence. We find that a 10 … violence as different armed groups fight each other, the government and the civil population for their control and extraction …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

since Colombia's independence 200 years ago. It argues that the reforms often failed to curb violence and sometimes even …Colombia is a Latin American outlier in that it has traditionally been a very violent country, yet at the same time … remarkably democratic. This chapter explores Colombia's puzzle from a political economy perspective, shedding light on the …