The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives
We investigate the use of high-powered incentives for the Colombian military and show that this practice produced perverse side effects. Innocent civilians were killed and misrepresented as guerillas (a phenomenon known in Colombia as "false positives"). There were significantly more false...
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| Language: | English |
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American Economic Association,
2021-04-01T12:35:05Z.
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