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 waves of survey data from Afrobarometer (Round 4 Afrobarometer Survey in Uganda … decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to a number of …

. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to …We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors-conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …-that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages emerging …