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Armed conflict exposure, human capital investments, and child l: evidence from Colombia / Rodriguez, Catherine; Sanchez, Fabio

Rodriguez, Catherine	Journal Article
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2012.

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This article estimates the effect of armed conflict exposure on school drop-out and labor decisions of Colombian children between the ages of 6 and 17. The empirical strategy is based on two-stage duration analysis and biprobit estimations that take into account the endogeneity of conflict. We find that conflict affects children older than 11, inducing them to drop out of school and enter the labor market too early. We find that short-term exposure to violence is the most relevant for these decisions and probable channels of transmission include higher mortality risks, negative economic shocks, and lesser school quality.

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Armed Conflict ; Colombia ; Duration Analysis ; Child Labor ; School Drop - Out

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Firm exit and armed conflict in Colombia / Camacho, Adriana; Rodriguez, Catherine

Rodriguez, Catherine	Journal Article
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2013.

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This article uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that armed conflict has over firm exit in Colombia. Using a fixed-effect estimation methodology at the plant level and controlling for the possible endogeneity of armed conflict through the use of instrumental variables, we find that a one-standard deviation (SD) increase in the number of guerrilla and paramilitary attacks in a municipality increases the probability of plant exit in 5.5 percentage points or .28 SD. This effect is stronger for younger manufacturing plants, with a smaller number of workers and low levels of capital.

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Conflict ; Colombia ; Entrepreneurship ; Firm Exit

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