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Intergroup contact and nation building: evidence from military service in Spain

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorCaceres Delpiano, Julio
dc.contributor.authorDe Moragas, Antoni Italo
dc.contributor.authorFacchini, Gabriel
dc.contributor.authorGonzález, Ignacio
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (España)es
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrides
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-30T17:07:40Z
dc.date.available2020-11-30T17:07:40Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-30
dc.description.abstractWe study the long-term effects of intergroup contact on nation building by exploiting a national lottery that randomly allocated conscripts to different military areas across Spain. For men born in regions featuring a strong regional identity, we find that being assigned to military service in a region different from one's region of birth substantially increases self-identification as Spanish and reduces the likelihood of voting for a regionalist party. Moreover, in support of intergroup contact as the main mechanism behind these results, we find that movers are more likely to have friends from another region than nonmoversen
dc.description.sponsorshipCáceres-Delpiano gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Grant ECO2009-11165 and ECO2019-00419-001), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MDM 2014-0431), and the Comunidad de Madrid MadEco-CM (S2015/HUM-3444). De Moragas acknowledges the support of the Spanish Ministry of Education (Grant PGC2018-099415-B-100 MICINN/FEDER/UE) and Fundación Ramón Areces. Facchini gratefully acknowledges financial support from the General Secretariat for Research-Government of Catalonia (SGR2017-1301) and the Spanish Ministry of Education (PID2019-104619RB-C43).en
dc.identifier.issn2340-5031es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/31507
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001854es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking paper. Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseries20-15es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2009-11165es
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. S2015/HUM-3444es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2019-00419-001es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. MDM2014-0431es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. PGC2018-099415-B-100es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. PID2019-104619RB-C43es
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.jelD02
dc.subject.jelD71
dc.subject.jelJ15
dc.subject.otherNation Buildingen
dc.subject.otherIntergroup Contacten
dc.subject.otherMilitary Serviceen
dc.titleIntergroup contact and nation building: evidence from military service in Spainen
dc.typeworking paper*
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