| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8741 |
| DP8741 Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda | |
| Fabrizio Zilibotti; Dominic Rohner | |
| 发表日期 | 2012 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-05. We exploit two waves of survey data from Afrobarometer 2000 and 2008, including information on socioeconomic characteristics at the individual level, and geo-referenced measures of fighting events from ACLED. Our identification strategy exploits variations in the intensity of fighting both in the spatial and cross-ethnic dimensions. We find that more intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to a number of control variables, alternative measures of violence, and different statistical techniques involving ethnic and spatial fixed effects and instrumental variables. We also document that the post-war effects of ethnic violence depend on the ethnic fractionalization. Fighting has a negative effect on the economic situation in highly fractionalized counties, but has no effect in less fractionalized counties. Our findings are consistent with the existence of a self-reinforcing process between conflicts and ethnic cleavages. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Ethnic conflict Ethnic identity Fighting Fractionalisation Slavery Social capital Trust Uganda |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8741 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537577 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fabrizio Zilibotti,Dominic Rohner. DP8741 Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda. 2012. |
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