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Adhvaryu, Achyuta and Fenske, James (2023) Conflict and the formation of political beliefs in Africa. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 71 (2). pp. 403-442. doi:10.1086/715846 ISSN 0013-0079.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/715846
Abstract
We test whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. We combine data on the location and intensity of conflicts since 1945 with nationally representative data on political attitudes and behaviors from 17 sub-Saharan African countries. Exposure from ages 0 to 14 has a very small standardized impact on later attitudes and behaviors. This finding is robust to migration and holds across a variety of definitions, specifications, and sources of data. Our results suggest that at the population level, the “conflict trap” in Africa is not driven by shifts in political beliefs and engagement caused by conflict exposure in childhood.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government, Political violence -- Africa, Sub-Saharan, Political culture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan, Child development, Children -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Economic Development and Cultural Change | |||||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | |||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-0079 | |||||||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 71 | |||||||||
Number: | 2 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 403-442 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/715846 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.. Accepted for publication by Economic Development and Cultural Change on 10/06/2021 | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2020 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 March 2023 | |||||||||
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