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Kidnaps
and Migration: Evidence from Colombia
Date:
2010-03-16
By:
Catherine Rodríguez
Edgar Villa
URL:
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:col:000089:006933&r=mig
Using a unique
data set from the major Colombian cities collected between 2000-2003 and
with information on more than 16,000 households, this paper studies the
relationship between the kidnap risk a household faces with its
migration decisions. We find evidence that exposure to such risk induces
households to react sending some of their members to an international
destination but not necessarily to a domestic one. This finding is
robust to the inclusion of several household characteristics usual in
the migration literature and an alternative measure of kidnap risk. The
implication of our findings suggest a possible “brain drain” from
Colombia.
