Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Thomas Bassetti
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Bassetti
Author-Email: thomas.bassetti@unipd.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno", University of Padua
Author-Name: Raul Caruso
Author-X-Name-First: Raul
Author-X-Name-Last: Caruso
Author-Email: raul.caruso@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Darwin Cortes
Author-X-Name-First: Darwin
Author-X-Name-Last: Cortes
Author-Email: darwin.cortes@urosario.edu.co
Author-Workplace-Name: Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario and CeiBA. Bogotà
Title: Behavioral differences in violence: The case of intra-group differences of Paramilitaries and Guerrillas in Colombia
Abstract: In most studies on civil wars, determinants of conflict have been hitherto explored assuming that actors involved were either unitary or stable. However, if this intra-group homogeneity assumption does not hold, empirical econometric estimates may be biased. We use Fixed Effects Finite Mixture Model (FE-FMM) approach to address this issue that provides a representation of heterogeneity when data originate from different latent classes and the affiliation is unknown. It allows to identify sub-populations within a population as well as the determinants of their behaviors. By combining various data sources for the period 2000-2005, we apply this methodology to the Colombian conflict. Our results highlight a behavioral heterogeneity in guerrilla’s armed groups and their distinct economic correlates. By contrast paramilitaries behave as a rather homogenous group.
Length: 41
Creation-Date: 2015-07
File-URL: http://istituti.unicatt.it/politica-economica-ISPE
0073.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2015
Number: ispe0073
Classification-JEL: D74, H72, C46
Keywords: Finite Mixture Models, Colombian Conflict, Behavioral Differences in Conflict
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie5:ispe0073