Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/274015 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
MUNI ECON Working Paper No. 2023-03
Publisher: 
Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno
Abstract: 
We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three million German speakers and the simultaneous influx of nearly two million resettlers. Focusing on the areas where at least 90 % of the population was forced to leave, we show that the municipalities hosting a church built before 1945 developed significantly higher social capital under the communist rule, which persisted after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and the current days.
Subjects: 
Institutions
migration
conflict
social capital
religion
transition countries
JEL: 
D74
L31
N24
N44
N94
O15
Z1
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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