This paper studies the persistence of the effects that terrorism exert on municipality size. With this aim, we propose to implement new difference-in-differences techniques that control for heterogeneous effects across units and time. Using data of Colombia covering the period 1985-2020, we...

This paper studies the determinants of terrorism at the sub-national level in Colombia during 2001-2014. In order to establish robust relationships, a Bayesian model averaging framework has been implemented using departmental data. We find that the violence suffered by this country is linked to...