Goals met or just empty promises? : first version of the democratic security policy in Colombia

Number: 
700
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
K1, H5, R5
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

Exploiting spatial and temporal variations in the number of seizures from criminal organizations, I estimate regional fixed effects models of the increase in the number of properties confiscated on the main crime rates. From 2002 security strategies chang