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

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

In this paper I explore the potential link between Plan Colombia and violence with a new perspective. I focus the analysis only on the first three running years of the program (2000-2002) in order to avoid the overlapping effect with a security policy sta