Health Workforce Reallocation in the Aftermath of Conflict: Evidence from Colombia
Claudio Mora,
Mounu Prem,
Paul Rodriguez-Lesmes
et al.
Abstract:Healthcare workers are in great deficit worldwide, especially in rural and vulnerable areas of developing countries. By leveraging a permanent ceasefire that ended over five decades of armed conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC insurgency, we study the extent to which conflict termination affected the health workforce gap between areas more exposed to FARC violence and other places. Based on individual-level administrative records of all healthcare workers in Colombia and a difference-in-diff… Show more
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