Buenaventura, in southwestern Colombia. Relying on six months of fieldwork experience in a hardware shop of Ciudad Blanca, an … impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …

should help people reach and maintain bargains, minimizing violence. Can outside organizations engineer improvements and … violent land disputes are common. Prior work showed a fall in violence and unresolved disputes within one year. We return …

development programs on violence is surprisingly mixed. To break this impasse, we exploit a within-country policy experiment to … examine the conditions under which anti-poverty programs reduce violence. The roll-out of India's National Rural Employment … Guarantee Scheme caused a large long-run reduction in Maoist conflict violence, as measured with an original data set based on …

This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By … matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for … problems of the sample and the key issue of endogeneity of violence. The main results show that high levels of violence …