Replication Data for: "Building Nations Through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Filipe Robin Campante, Johns Hopkins University; Ruben Durante, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Project Citation:

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio, Campante, Filipe Robin, and Durante, Ruben. Replication Data for: “Building Nations Through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-04-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E115011V1

Project Description

Summary:

We examine whether shared collective experiences help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub-Saharan Africa. We find that individuals surveyed in the days after an important victory of their country's national team are 37% less likely to identify primarily with their ethnic group, and 30% more likely to trust other ethnicities, than those interviewed just before. Crucially, national team achievements also reduce violence: countries that (barely) qualified to the Africa Cup of Nations experience less civil conflict (9% fewer episodes) in the following months than countries that (barely) did not.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Z29 Sports Economics: Other

Geographic Coverage: Africa

Time Period(s): 1997 – 2015

Data Type(s): aggregate data; event/transaction data; geographic information system (GIS) data; survey data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: country-week, individuals

Geographic Unit: countries

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