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- Jaime Bonet-Morón
- Jorge Guerra-España
- Jhorland Ayala-García
Abstract
En diversas regiones del mundo, se han promovido reorganizaciones territoriales mediante la división y creación de unidades administrativas, como mecanismos para mejorar el desarrollo local y la representación política. Este trabajo evalúa las consecuencias a largo plazo de las separaciones regionales en Colombia, comparando los municipios que permanecieron en sus regiones originales con aquellos que se integraron a las nuevas. A partir de datos históricos sobre divisiones regionales en el siglo XX, implementamos un diseño de regresión discontinua geográfica, utilizando la distancia de cada municipio al límite de separación como variable continua. Esto nos permite estimar el impacto de la separación administrativa sobre los indicadores actuales de desarrollo (pobreza multidimensional y necesidades básicas insatisfechas), bajo el supuesto de que los municipios cercanos a la frontera eran similares ex ante. Los resultados muestran que no hay efectos significativos a largo plazo de la separación sobre el desarrollo de los municipios. **** ABSTRACT: In various regions around the world, territorial reorganizations have been promoted through the division and creation of administrative units as mechanisms to improve local development and political representation. This study evaluates the long-term consequences of regional separations in Colombia by comparing municipalities that remained in their original regions with those that joined newly created ones. Using historical data on regional divisions, we implement a geographic regression discontinuity design, using each municipality’s distance to the separation boundary as a continuous variable. This allows us to estimate the causal impact of administrative separation on current development indicators, under the assumption that municipalities near the border were similar ex ante. The results do not reveal significant long-term effects of separation on municipal poverty.
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Jaime Bonet-Morón & Jorge Guerra-España & Jhorland Ayala-García, 2025.
"Impacto de la división territorial sobre a pobreza municipal a largo plazo,"
Cuadernos de Historia Económica
67, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
Handle:
RePEc:bdr:cheedt:67
DOI: 10.32468/chee.67
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JEL classification:
- P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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