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Conflict and roads in Colombia

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dc.contributor López-Bazo, Enrique
dc.contributor Albalate, Daniel, 1980-
dc.creator González, Juan Felipe
dc.date 2018-10-22T17:47:24Z
dc.date 2018-10-22T17:47:24Z
dc.date 2018
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:26:55Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:26:55Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/125507
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/21652
dc.description Treballs Finals del Màster d'Economia, Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2017-2018, Tutor: Enrique López-Bazo ; Daniel Albalate del Sol
dc.description The civil unrest in Colombia has reported over 8 million victims. This paper studies the effect of transport infrastructure on the level of conflict at the municipality level. I confirm the main hypothesis that roads have a significant and negative effect on conflict, that is, better roads endowment discourage conflict in general. I also find that populated municipalities are the primary shelter for displaced. However, the agglomeration effects do not overshadow the road’s effect. I interpret these results as inter-regional roads increase the state capacity and shift the economic activity in the regions, the latter decreases the probability of participating in the conflict by either joining armed groups or being a victim. The role of roads is found to be robust to a long list of controls, different specifications, different estimation techniques, and potential bias from simultaneity and measurement error.
dc.format 38 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) González, 2018
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Màster Oficial - Economia
dc.subject Infraestructures (Transport)
dc.subject Economia regional
dc.subject Colòmbia
dc.subject Treballs de fi de màster
dc.subject Transportation buildings
dc.subject Regional economics
dc.subject Colombia
dc.subject Master's theses
dc.title Conflict and roads in Colombia
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis


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