Calendrier du 15 janvier 2019
Du 15/01/2019 de 16:00 à 17:00
FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ Martin (LISER)
Mès Que Un Club: Football, Identity and Nationalism
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PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 15/01/2019 de 16:00 à 17:00
FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ Martin (LISER)
Mès Que Un Club: Football, Identity and Nationalism
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 15/01/2019 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BARRERA Oscar (¨SE)
Voting for war. The effect of electoral outcomes on conflict, evidence from Colombia
The Colombian conflict experienced a dramatic intensification after 2002 when the national government implemented the Democratic Security policy spearheaded by the Colombian’s Conservative leader Alvaro Uribe. This study examines the direct effects of putting into practice the Democratic Security policy on local violence towards civilians. A regression discontinuity approach shows that the number of civilian victims by Guerrilla bands increases substantially after close elections in municipalities where mayors sharing the DS policy won, whereas no effect of the civilian victims by other bands or official forces was observed. Empirical evidence suggests that the violence reflects either an anticipation strategy followed by the Guerrilla or a manipulation of the scores by the local offices.