Code and Data for: Cursed by Profits?

Instructions and descriptions of the code and data used in Cursed by Profits?

La Violencia: data_ideology_rifles.dta is the dataset used by Lopez-Uribe and Sanchez (2024). We use their data on forced displacements.
PANEL_CONFLICTO_Y_VIOLENCIA2.xlsx is a subset of the dataset from Fernandez (2012). This data is obtained from https://datoscede.uniandes.edu.co/catalogo-de-datos/.
Violence1_ideology_rifles.jl estimates the BMM models with and without instrumental variables.
Linear_violence1.jl estimates the linear aproximation.
El Desmadre: base_coca_final.xlsx contains the data on coca and coffee profitability as described in the main text.
PANEL_CARACTERISTICAS_GENERALES.xlsx contains the data on distance to market, distance to capital, and regions.
Clima.xlsx contains the precipitation and altitude data.
Violence2_levels.jl estimates the BMM models with and without instrumental variables.
Additional (Original) Data: Calculos-ganancias.xlsx contains the profitability data reported in Figure 2 in the main text.