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

Caceres Delpiano, Julio; De Moragas, Antoni Italo; Facchini, Gabriel; González, Ignacio

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

Author(s): Caceres Delpiano, Julio; De Moragas, Antoni Italo; Facchini, Gabriel; González, Ignacio

Editor: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Issued date: 2020-11-30

ISSN: 2340-5031

xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-contributor-funder: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (España)
Comunidad de Madrid

Sponsor: Cáceres-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).

Serie/No.: Working paper. Economics
20-15

Project: Gobierno de España. ECO2009-11165
Comunidad de Madrid. S2015/HUM-3444
Gobierno de España. ECO2019-00419-001
Gobierno de España. MDM2014-0431
Gobierno de España. PGC2018-099415-B-100
Gobierno de España. PID2019-104619RB-C43

Keywords: Nation Building , Intergroup Contact , Military Service

JEL Classification: D02 , D71 , J15

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/31507

Rights: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España

Abstract:

We 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 bei [+]

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