Plan Colombia: The Unintended Consequences of Drug Enforcement
Plan Colombia was a joint U.S.-Colombia strategy to fight illegal coca production in Colombia in the 2000s. This case studies the consequences that such an effort had on coca leaf prices, production, and the use of child labor for coca farming in Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia. All the data comes from Sviatschi, M.M. (2022), Making a NARCO: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths. Econometrica, 90: 1835-1878.
Collection: IESE (España)
Ref: ECON-433-E
Number of pages: 4
Publication Date: Jun 3, 2024
Language: English
Description
Plan Colombia was a joint U.S.-Colombia strategy to fight illegal coca production in Colombia in the 2000s. This case studies the consequences that such an effort had on coca leaf prices, production, and the use of child labor for coca farming in Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia. All the data comes from Sviatschi, M.M. (2022), Making a NARCO: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths. Econometrica, 90: 1835-1878.
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Geographic Setting: Colombia
Industry Setting: Health
Learning Objective
Use the competitive equilibrium framework to study the unintended consequences that drug enforcement in Colombia had on coca production and child labor in Peru.
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