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The American Economic Review, 2023 We measure how a network of heroes can legitimize and diffuse extreme political behaviors. We exploit newly declassified intelligence files, novel voting data, and regimental histories to show that home municipalities of French line regiments arbitrarily
Julia Cagé +3 more
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Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify the persistent effect of protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into participation in an antiauthoritarian protest.
Leonardo Bursztyn +12 more
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Building Nations through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football
The American Economic Review, 2020 We examine whether shared collective experiences help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams’ victories in sub-Saharan Africa.
Emilio Depetris-Chauvín +2 more
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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 We use a policy experiment in Indonesia to show how local political boundaries affect ethnic tension. Redrawing district borders along group lines reduces conflict.
Samuel Bazzi, Matthew Gudgeon
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Leadership in Social Movements: Evidence from the “Forty-Eighters” in the Civil War
The American Economic Review, 2021 This paper studies the role of leaders in the social movement against slavery that culminated in the US Civil War. Our analysis is organized around a natural experiment: leaders of the failed German revolution of 1848–1849 were expelled to the United ...
C. Dippel, Stephan Heblich
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Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict
Social Science Research NetworkEthnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict, while others do not? I show that civil conflict in Africa is explained by ethnic groups’ cultural distance to the central government: an increase in ...
Eleonora Guarnieri
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Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany
Social Science Research NetworkWe document that right-wing terrorism leads to significant increases in vote share for the right-wing, populist AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party in Germany.
N. Sabet, Marius Liebald, Guido Friebel
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CESifo Economic StudiesThe growing emphasis on nation-states and their pivotal role in economic development has emerged as a central theme in contemporary economic discourse. This review examines the concept of state capacity as discussed in the economic literature, focusing
Federica Braccioli +3 more
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Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia
Social Science Research NetworkConflict along transportation routes during Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgency significantly increases maize prices at distant locations, decreasing food security, health, and education.
M. Alfano, T. Cornelissen
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Leaders and social norms: On the emergence of consensus or conflict
Journal of Economic Behavior & OrganizationWe propose a model where competing group leaders influence the social norm adopted in their group constrained by the norm being individually optimal for their members.
Juan I. Block, Rohan Dutta, D. Levine
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