Rural windfall or a new resource curse? coca, income, and civil conflict in Colombia

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-215

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a   Kugler, Adriana D ^b  

^a NBER ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 43449139155     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.2.191     Document Type: Review

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