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Title: The Economic Effects of Insurrectionary Activity
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: There is a historical tendency in institutions of power to discredit insurrectionary activity’s possible contributions to social formation and class structure. I apply a market view of political violence to insurrectionary activity and use insider outsider theory to develop a mechanism that understands its potential redistributive effects in labor markets through the defiance of the state’s monopoly on violence. Using geographic data from bombings claimed by the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional that took place in the 1970’s, I find empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that insurrectionary activity has redistributive effects. These effects are most evident in employment practices. Proximity to the bombings is associated with a significant decrease in Hispanic unemployment for census tracts that have a Puerto Rican population concentration of at least 20%. The results on possible income effects are inconclusive but suggestive of differential impacts on income per capita that depend on the concentration of Puerto Ricans in the census tract. In general, census tracts with higher concentrations of Puerto Ricans were positively affected by proximity to insurrectionary activity. These census tracts show a decrease in unemployment and in poverty associated with insurrectionary activity. The results demonstrate reduced form effects that do not differentiate between effects in social capital formation and increases in bargaining power.
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Authors: Reyes, Fabián, R
Institution: Amherst College
Department: Economics
Advisor: Katharine Sims
Degree: B.A.
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Pages: 1-57
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Topics: Crime and Deviance, Poverty and Welfare
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