War and Social Attitudes: Revisiting Consensus Views

Travers Barclay Child () and Elena Nikolova ()
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Travers Barclay Child: VU University Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, Netherlands
Elena Nikolova: Central European Labor Studies Institute, Slovakia
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Patricia Justino

No 258, HiCN Working Papers from Households in Conflict Network

Abstract: We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II and Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Earlier work has relied on self-reported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate consensus findings linking victimization to increased political participation and civic engagement. Those findings collapse when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material. Also, in a reversal of earlier short-run findings, we show that conflict breeds optimism in the long-run. Last, we shed doubt on another consensus by failing to provide evidence that conflict hinders trust.

Keywords: Intergenerational; conflict, attitudes, World War II (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 N44 P20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-09
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