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Christensen, Peter Baylis, Katherine Crost, Benjamin Herrera Almanza, Catalina Nino Chaparro, Gustavo Enrique 2021-09-17T01:11:08Z 2021-09-17T01:11:08Z 2021-04-27 2021-05 This paper studies how peace driven by the demobilization of a non-state armed group affect household's investment decisions and their welfare in the short run. Starting in 2012, the government of Colombia engaged in a peace process that ended with the demobilization of the country's biggest non-state armed group, FARC. This process had multiple cease fire arrangements in 2013 and 2014 that reduced the exposure to violence in those places that were previously under the control of an armed group. Using the presence of armed groups as a measure of exposure to the war through a difference in difference approach, I find that the FARC's demobilization process led to a more than threefold increase in farm investment in areas previously affected by the group, as farmers moved production from annual to perennial crops. I find no evidence that investment came at the expense of short-term consumption. Finally, I find evidence of substantial positive spillovers in investment to neighboring areas that were not directly affected by the FARC. The results suggest that decreased investment may be an important mechanism through which armed conflict affects economic development. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2021-09-16 without embargo terms The student, Gustavo Nino Chaparro, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-20 at 20:50. The student, Gustavo Nino Chaparro, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-04-20 at 21:10. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-04-27 at 16:37. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16451 on 2021-09-16 at 16:45:05 Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T01:11:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 NINOCHAPARRO-THESIS-2021.pdf: 4332807 bytes, checksum: 67caca66e1ebc6d7440bd6fe43a35b1f (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4218 bytes, checksum: 271f7b927a15616beca6e0a6dae30c16 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-04-27 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110523 en Copyright 2021 Gustavo Nino Chaparro peace, war, investment, food, consumption Peace, farm and food: The effect of peace on investment and food consumption decisions text Thesis Agr & Consumer Economics Agricultural & Applied Econ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.