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Type | Journal Article - Oxford Economic Papers |
Title | Civil war, social capital and resilience in Uganda |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 67 |
Issue | 3 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2015 |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpv036 |
Abstract | We show that armed conflict in Uganda affects social capital as measured by trust and associational membership. Relying on three rounds of nationally representative individual-level data bracketing a large number of violent events, we find that self-reported generalized trust and associational membership decreased during the conflict in districts in which violent events took place. But we also find evidence for a rapid recovery of social capital in the aftermath of violence. Results from a variety of identification strategies, including difference-in-differences and instrumental variable estimates, suggests that these relationships are causal. |
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De Luca, Giacomo, and Marijke Verpoorten. "Civil war, social capital and resilience in Uganda." Oxford Economic Papers 67, no. 3 (2015).