RT Generic
T1 Intergroup contact and nation building: evidence from military service in Spain
A1 Caceres Delpiano, Julio
A1 De Moragas, Antoni Italo
A1 Facchini, Gabriel
A1 González, Ignacio
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB 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 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 nonmovers
SN 2340-5031
YR 2020
FD 2020-11-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/31507
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/31507
LA eng
NO Cáceres-Delpiano gratefully acknowledges financial support fromthe Spanish Ministry of Education (Grant ECO2009-11165 and ECO2019-00419-001), the Spanish Ministryof 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 gratefullyacknowledges financial support from the General Secretariat for Research-Government of Catalonia(SGR2017-1301) and the Spanish Ministry of Education (PID2019-104619RB-C43).
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