Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Journal of Economic Growth 18 (2013) 3, pp. 217-252
We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on Uganda’s experience 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 2002–2005. We exploit two...