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Hernando Grueso – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Given the spike of homicides in conflict zones of Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement, I study the causal effect of violence on college test scores. Using a difference-in-difference design with heterogeneous effects, I show how this increase in violence had a negative effect on college learning, and how this negative effect is mediated by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, War, College Students
Hernando Grueso – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In this paper, I study the causal relationship between violence and human capital accumulation. Due to a power vacuum left in conflict zones of Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement, large spikes in violence were reported in the municipalities of the country dominated by the rebel group FARC. I compare student test scores in municipalities that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Causal Models, War