Artículos Académicos

The Bureaucracy of Reparations and Political Engagement
Comparative Politics, April 2025
Michael Weintraub, Abbey Steele, Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios

Mano dura: An experimental evaluation of military policing in Cali, Colombia
American Journal of Political Science, April 2025
Robert A. Blair, Lucía Mendoza-Mora, Michael Weintraub

Small-scale gold miners’ preferences on formalization: First steps toward sustainable supply chains in Colombia
World Development, April 2025
María Alejandra Vélez, Ximena Rueda, Juan Pablo Henao, Dayron Monroy, Danny Tobin, Jorge Maldonado, Alexander Pfaff

Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia
American Political Science Review, February 2025
Erica De Bruin, Gabriella Levy, Livia I. Schubiger and Michael Weintraub

Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes
The Journal of Politics, February 2025
Andi Cam Zhou, Henk Erich Goemans, and Michael Weintraub

Exploring Risk Prevention and Harm Reduction Behaviours among Snorted Cocaine Users
Revista Internacional de Investigación en Adicciones, December 2024
Carolina Pinzón-Gómez, Miguel Bencomo-Cruz López, Maria Paula Gamboa Bayona, Carlos Gantiva

Características socioeconómicas de los cultivadores de coca en Colombia: recomendaciones para una política de transformación territorial con enfoque étnico y ambiental
Documentos de antecedentes del Informe Nacional de Desarrollo Humano, PNUD. 2024
Eleonora Dávalos, Estefany Hernández, Lucas Marín Llanes, María Juliana Rubiano-Lizarazo, María Alejandra Vélez

Land tenure security and forest cover in the Colombian Amazon
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, November 2024
Kelly W. Jones, Nicolás Cabra-Ruiz, Natalia Correa Sánchez, Eduardo Molina González, María Alejandra Vélez

Health warning labels on cannabis products. What is the best design?
International Journal of Drug Policy, April 2024
Carlos Gantiva, Joseph Illidge-Cortes, Danna González-Millares, Valentina Maldonado-Hoyos, Laura Valencia

Systematic review of cognitive and behavioral strategies used in effective harm reduction interventions for people who use cocaine
Journal of Addictive Diseases, April 2024
Carolina Pinzón-Gómez, Juan Pablo Langlade, & Carlos Gantiva

Did Covid-19 Change Armed Group Governance? Evidence from a Survey of Local Security Authorities in Colombia
Bulletin of Latin American Research, August 2023
Erica De Bruin, Michael Weintraub

Introducing the Mapping Attitudes, Perceptions and Support (MAPS) dataset on the Colombian peace process
Journal of Peace Research, July 2023
Michael Weintraub, Abbey Steele, Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Marianne Dahl, and Helga Malmin Binningsbø

No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, July 2023
Esther Blanco, Lina Moros, Alexander Pfaff, Ivo Steimanis, María Alejandra Vélez, Björn Vollan

Genome-Scale Metabolic Reconstruction, Non-Targeted LC-QTOF-MS Based Metabolomics Data, and Evaluation of Anticancer Activity of Cannabis sativa Leaf Extracts
Metabolites, June 2023
Fidias D. González Camargo, Mary Santamaria-Torres, Mónica P. Cala, Marcela Guevara-Suarez 2,Silvia Restrepo Restrepo, Andrea Sánchez-Camargo, Miguel Fernández-Niño, María Corujo, Ada Carolina Gallo Molina, Javier Cifuentes ,Julian A. Serna, Juan C. Cruz, Carolina Muñoz-Camargo and Andrés F. Gonzalez Barrios

Little evidence that military policing reduces crime or improves human security
Nature Human Behaviour, May 2023
Robert A. Blair, Michael Weintraub

Temporary PES do not crowd out and may crowd in lab-in-the-field forest conservation in Colombia
Ecological Economics, February 2023
Lina Moros, María Alejandra Vélez, Daniela Quintero, Danny Tobin, Alexander Pfaff

Special Symposium on Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective
Comparative Politics, January 2023
Dara Kay Cohen, Danielle F. Jung and Michael Weintraub

The 2016 Election and America’s Standing Abroad: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of a ‘Trump Effect’
The Journal of Politics, October 2022
Regina Bateson and Michael Weintraub

News Media Reporting Patterns and our Biased Understanding of Global Unrest
Empirical Studies of Conflict, October 2022
Andrew C. Shaver, Kately Arriaga, Anne Blackburn, Daniel de Kadt, Bryn Farrington, Joseph H. Felter, Caterina Hyneman, Alexandra Leal Silva, Talia Lorch, Jack McLean, Mateo Prada, Marie Tobia, Michael Weintraub

Versión en Español Edición Especial JIED: Impactos ambientales de las economías ilícitas
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, September 2022

Rebel governance and political participation
UNU-WIDER, September 2022
Abbey Steele, Michael Weintraub

From strong leadership to active community engagement: Effective resistance to illegal coca crops in Afro-Colombian collective territories
International Journal of Drug Policy, April 2022
Iván D. Lobo, María Alejandra Vélez

Motorcycle Restrictions and Crime in Colombia
SSRN, April 2022
Eduard F. Martínez-González, Michael Weintraub, Leonardo Bonilla, Juan Pablo Mesa

Preventing Rebel Resurgence after Civil War: A Field Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia
American Political Science Review, March 2022
Robert A. Blair, Manuel Moscoso-Rojas, Andrés Vargas Castillo and Michael Weintraub

The killing of social leaders: An unintended effect of Colombia’s illicit crop substitution program
International Journal of Drug Policy, March 2022
Lucas Marín Llanes

Reducing Alcohol-Related Violence with Bartenders: A Behavioral Field Experiment
The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, December 2021
Andrés Ham, Darío Maldonado, Michael Weintraub, Andrés Felipe Camacho, Daniela Gualtero

Reducing Alcohol-Related Violence with Bartenders: A Behavioral Field Experiment
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, December 2021
Andrés Ham, Darío Maldonado, Michael Weintraub, Andrés Felipe Camacho, Daniela Gualtero

Have behavioral sciences delivered on their promise to influence environmental policy and conservation practice?
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, December 2021
María Alejandra Vélez, Lina Moros

Leaders’ distributional & efficiency effects in collective responses to policy: Lab-in-field experiments with small-scale gold miners in Colombia
World Development, November 2021
Luz A. Rodríguez, María Alejandra Vélez, Alexander Pfaff

Introduction Special Issue: Environmental Impacts of Illicit Economies
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, October 2021
Daniel Brombacher, Juan Carlos Garzón, María Alejandra Vélez

Regrouping to Reduce Overfishing: Evidence from a Series of Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Mexico
Marine Resource Economics, October 2021
Andreas Leibbrandt, Sergio Puerto, and María Alejandra Vélez

Reducing Pretrial Detention: A Randomized Intervention with Public Defenders in El Salvador
SSRN, July 2021
Javier Osorio, Michael Weintraub, Andrés Ham

Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico
Comparative Political Studies, February 2021
Javier Osorio, Livia Isabella Schubiger, and Michael Weintraub

Policy analysis and decision making in the military forces: the Havana experience
Policy Analysis in Colombia, September 2020
Paula Lorena Mora-Hernández, Juan David Gélvez-Ferreira, Michael Weintraub, Sebastián Bitar

Origen de la resistencia comunitaria a los cultivos de uso ilícito: evidencia de un consejo comunitario de comunidades negras al sur de Buenaventura
Revista “Estudios Socio-Jurídicos” de la Universidad del Rosario, julio de 2020
Iván D. Lobo, María Alejandra Vélez, Álvaro Arroyo

Is collective titling enough to protect forests? Evidence from Afro-descendant communities in the Colombian Pacific region
World Development, April 2020
María Alejandra Vélez, Juan Robalino, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Andrea Paz, Eduardo Pacay

Architectures, spaces, and territories of illicit drug trafficking in Colombia and Mexico
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, March 2020
Juan Pablo Aschner, Juan Carlos Montero

Urban Concentration and Civil War
Journal of Conflict Resolution, December 2019
Dani Nedal, Megan Stewart and Michael Weintraub

Graduated stringency within collective incentives for group environmental compliance: Building coordination in field-lab experiments with artisanal gold miners in Colombia
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, November 2019
Luz A. Rodriguez, Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez

Erythroxylum in Focus: An Interdisciplinary Review of an Overlooked Genus
Molecules, October 2019
David A. Restrepo, Ernesto Saenz, Orlando Adolfo Jara-Muñoz, Iván F. Calixto-Botía, Sioly Rodríguez-Suárez, Pablo Zuleta, Benjamin G. Chavez, Juan A. Sanchez, John C. D’Auria

Contracts versus trust for transfers of ecosystem services: Equity and efficiency in resource allocation and environmental provision
Water Resources and Economics, October 2019
Alexander Pfaff, María Alejandra Vélez, Kenneth Broad, Amar Hamoudi, Renzo Taddei

Payments for Ecosystem Services and Motivational Crowding in Colombia’s Amazon Piedmont
Ecological Economics, February 2019
Lina Moros, María Alejandra Vélez, Esteve Corbera

Beyond proximate and distal causes of land-use change: linking Individual motivations to deforestation in rural contexts
Ecology & Society, 2019
Ximena Rueda, María Alejandra Vélez, Lina Moros, and Luz Angela Rodríguez

Challenges of Organised Community Resistance in the Context of Illicit Economies and Drug War Policies: Insights from Colombia
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, Jan 2019
María Alejandra Vélez, Iván Lobo

Trust in the executive: Requiring consensus and turn-taking in the experimental lab
Journal of Peace Research, June 2018
Thomas Clark Durant, Michael Weintraub, Daniel Houser, and Shuwen Li

Disappearing dissent? Repression and state consolidation in Mexico
Journal of Peace Research, February 2018
Javier Osorio, Livia I Schubiger, and Michael Weintraub

Collective Property Leads to Household Investments: Lessons From Land Titling in Afro-Colombian Communities
World Development, September 2017
Ximena Peña, María Alejandra Vélez, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Natalia Perdomo, Camilo Matajira

The health consequences of aerial spraying illicit crops: The case of Colombia
Journal of Health Economics, July 2017
Adriana Camacho, Daniel Mejía

Do All Good Things Go Together? Development Assistance and Insurgent Violence in Civil War
The Journal of Politics, October 2016
Michael Weintraub

Leadership, entrepreneurship and collective action: A case study from the Colombian Pacific Region
International Journal of the Commons, September 2016
Iván D. Lobo, María A. Vélez, Sergio Puerto

Prosocial Behavior and Subjective Insecurity in Violent Contexts: Field Experiments
PloS one, July 2016
María Alejandra Vélez, Carlos Andres Trujillo, Lina Moros, Clemente Forero

Doctrine and violence: The impact of combatant training on civilian killings
Terrorism and Political Violence, January 2016
Ben Oppenheim & Michael Weintraub

Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: Path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation
Ecological Economics, December 2015
Alexander Pfaff, María Alejandra Vélez, Pablo Andres Ramos, Adriana Molina

Vote choice and legacies of violence: evidence from the 2014 Colombian presidential elections
Research & Politics, May 2015
Michael Weintraub, Juan F Vargas, and Thomas E. Flores

True Believers, Deserters, and Traitors: Who Leaves Insurgent Groups and Why
Journal of Conflict Resolution, April 2015
Ben Oppenheim, Abbey Steele, Juan F. Vargas and Michael Weintraub

Bargaining Between Rebel Groups and the Outside Option of Violence
Terrorism and Political Violence, April 2014
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Michael Weintraub

How to make democracy self-enforcing after civil war: Enabling credible yet adaptable elite pacts
Conflict Management and Peace Science, February 2014
T. Clark Durant and Michael Weintraub

An institutional remedy for ethnic patronage politics
Journal of Theoretical Politics, July 2013
T Clark Durant and Michael Weintraub

Rules Compliance and Age: Experimental Evidence with Fishers from the Amazon River
Ecology & Society, 2013
María Alejandra Vélez, María Claudia López

Unequal Information, Unequal Allocation: Bargaining field experiments in NE Brazil
Environmental Science & Policy, February 2013
Alexander Pfaff, María Alejandra Vélez, Renzo Taddei, Kenneth Broad

Preferences for government enforcement of a common pool harvest quota: Theory and experimental evidence from fishing communities in Colombia
Ecological Economics, May 2012
María Alejandra Vélez, John K. Stranlund, James J. Murphy

Efficiency and equity in negotiated resource transfers: Contributions and limitations of trust with limited contracts
Ecological Economics, February 2012
Alexander Pfaff, María Alejandra Vélez

Altruism, Righteousness, and Myopia
Critical Review, January 2012
Javier Osorio, Michael Weintraub, Andrés Ham

Instituciones anidadas para prevenir y resolver conflictos socio-ambientales: manejo y distribución del agua en Campo Alegre (Huila, Colombia)
Cuadernos de Desarrollo Rural, Diciembre de 2011
María Alejandra Vélez, Pablo Andrés Ramos, Laura Alayón

Participatory processes and climate forecast use: Socio-cultural context, discussion, and consensus
Climate and Development, June 2011
Nicole D. Peterson, Kenneth Broad, Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, Renzo Taddei & María-Alejandra Vélez

Collective Titling and the Process of Institution Building: The New Common Property Regime in the Colombian Pacific
Human Ecology, January 2011
María Alejandra Vélez

Centralized and decentralized management of local common pool resources in the developing world: experimental evidence from fishing communities in Colombia
Economic Inquiry, March 2010
María Alejandra Vélez, James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund

What motivates common pool resource users? Experimental evidence from the field
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, June 2009
María Alejandra Vélez, John K. Stranlund, James J. Murphy

Sistemas complejos de gobierno local. Reflexiones sobre la titulación colectiva en el Pacífico vallecaucano
Revista de Estudios Sociales, Abril de 2009
María Alejandra Vélez

Dissertation abstract: Three essays on the determinants of behavior in the commons-experimental evidence from fishing communities in Colombia
Experimental Economics, February 2007
María Alejandra Vélez