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dc.contributor.authorMesnard, Aliceen
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-23-
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-04T09:19:29Z-
dc.date.available2011-07-04T09:19:29Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/47497-
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for the evaluation of the 'Familias en Acción' welfare programme, the empirical analysis takes into account possible selection problems of the sample and the key issue of endogeneity of violence. The main results show that high levels of violence encourage households to leave their municipality of residence but that welfare programmes may mitigate these flows, provided that the incidence of violence is not unduly high. This is consistent with the fact that the households under study are liquidity constrained: when violence is high, cash transfers may enable them to leave their municipality of residence, whereas, in more normal circumstances, receiving cash transfers increases the benefits to stay where they are registered. Further evidence using household shocks and wealth confirm that liquidity constraints play a large role in explaining such heterogeneous impacts of the programme along violence levels. Other important determinants of migration are the type of property rights and the health insurance rural households can benefit from.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) |cLondonen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIFS Working Papers |x09,19en
dc.subject.jelD1en
dc.subject.jelJ6en
dc.subject.jelZ0en
dc.subject.jelO1en
dc.subject.jelH8en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmigrationen
dc.subject.keywordwelfare programmeen
dc.subject.keywordviolenceen
dc.subject.keyworddisplacementen
dc.subject.keywordColombiaen
dc.subject.stwWohnstandorten
dc.subject.stwGewalten
dc.subject.stwPrivater Haushalten
dc.subject.stwBinnenwanderungen
dc.subject.stwÖffentlicher Transferen
dc.subject.stwKolumbienen
dc.titleMigration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn609957104en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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