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Community organization and armed group behaviour: Evidence from Colombia

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  • Margarita Gáfaro
  • Ana María Ibáñez
  • Patricia Justino

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This paper investigates how armed groups affect the organization of local communities during armed conflict in Colombia. We estimate the effect of communities' exposure to armed groups with an econometric specification that takes into account individual and municipality-year fixed effects and an instrumental variable approach that exploits variations in the presence of armed groups in rural communities induced by the peace negotiations with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army.

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  • Margarita Gáfaro & Ana María Ibáñez & Patricia Justino, 2022. "Community organization and armed group behaviour: Evidence from Colombia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-2, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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