This paper explores the importance of the risk of violence on the decision making of rural households, using a unique panel data set for Colombian coffee-growers. We identify two channels. First, we examine the direct impact of conflict on agricultural production through the change in the...

This paper explores the importance of the risk of violence on the decision making of rural households, using a unique panel data set for Colombian coffee-growers. We identify two channels. First, we examine the direct impact of conflict on agricultural production through the change in the...

Civil wars often force people to leave their homes. Displaced populations run higher risk in terms of disease, hunger and death, something that is well-documented. They leave their land, cattle and other assets behind for an uncertain existence in a refugee camp or depend on relatives or...

Forced displacement is a worldwide phenomenon related not only to political and social crisis in different countries, but also to the control of rural areas by armed groups involved in a conflict. Recently, in Colombia, this social phenomenon has dramatically increased together with agrarian,...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis suggests the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental degradation and income. Several economists assume that the environmental impacts occurred during the first stages of the development process will be reverted as a result...

Este artículo busca proponer alternativas de enseñanza para un curso de Introducción a la Economía, utilizando la herramienta de la Economía Experimental. De este modo, se introducen dos juegos Holt (1996) y Goeree and Holt (1999) en tres grupos distintos, los cuales se centran en los...

agricultura para dilucidar nuevos campos problemáticos pertinentes en las realidades latinoamericanas. Las reflexiones de la economía alrededor de lo agrario se configuran desde tres enfoques: Neoclásico, Institucional y Crítico. El enfoque neoclásico se fundamenta en la concepción de las...

La hipótesis de la Curva Ambiental de Kuznets (EKC) propone la existencia de una relación en forma de U invertida entre la degradación ambiental y el ingreso per capita. Se ha asumido que esta relación implica que el crecimiento económico eventualmente revertirá los impactos ambientales de...

Politics must tackle multiple issues at once. In a first-best world, political competition constrains parties to prioritize issues according to the voters’ true concerns. In the real world, the opposite also happens: parties manipulate voter priorities by emphasizing issues selectively...

Politics must address multiple problems simultaneously. In an ideal world, political competition would force parties to adopt priorities that reflect the voters' true concerns. In reality, parties can run their campaigns in such a way as to manipulate voters' priorities. This phenomenon, known...