MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aAngrist, Joshua David.
245 10 $aRural windfall or a new resource curse?$h[electronic resource]$bcoca, income, and civil conflict in Colombia /$cJoshua D. Angrist, Adriana D. Kugler.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2005.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 11219
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 3/30/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the countryside. In this paper, we study the economic and social consequences of a major shift in the production of coca paste from Peru and Bolivia to Colombia, where most coca leaf is now harvested. This shift, which arose in response to the disruption of the "air bridge" that previously ferried coca paste into Colombia, provided an exogenous boost in the demand for Colombian coca leaf. Our analysis shows this shift generated economic gains in rural areas, primarily in the form of increased self-employment earnings and increased labor supply by teenage boys. There is little evidence of widespread economic spillovers, however. The results also suggest that the rural areas which saw accelerated coca production subsequently became much more violent. Taken together, these findings support the view that the Colombian civil conflict is fueled by the financial opportunities that coca provides. This is in line with a recent literature which attributes the extension of civil conflicts to economic rewards and an environment that favors insurgency more than to the persistence of economic or political grievances"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
650 0 $aCoca$xEconomic aspects$zColombia.
650 0 $aCoca$xSocial aspects$zColombia.
650 0 $aCoca industry$zColombia.
650 0 $aRural development$zColombia.
650 0 $aResource curse$zColombia.
700 1 $aKugler, Adriana D.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 11219.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w11219