Plan Colombia's onset: effects on homicides and violent deaths

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
746
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
R10, H5, K1
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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