Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184881 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 279
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
We study the long-run effects of con ict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on self- reported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate established findings linking victimization to political participation, civic engagement, optimism, and trust. Those findings are reversed, however, when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material. Thus, we urge caution when interpreting survey- based results from this literature as causal.
Subjects: 
conflict
social attitudes
World War II
JEL: 
D74
N44
P20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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