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Nutrition, Governance and Violence: A Framework for the Analysis of Resilience and Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Contexts of Violent Conflict

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  • Patricia Justino

    () (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

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We show that armed conflict affects social capital as measured by trust and associational membership. Using the case of Uganda and two rounds of nationally representative individual-level data bracketing a large number of battle events, we find that self-reported generalized trust and associational membership decreased during the conflict in districts in which battle events took place. Exploiting the different timing of two distinct waves of violence, we provide suggestive evidence for a rapid recovery of social capital. Evidence from a variety of identification strategies, including difference-indifference and instrumental variable estimates, suggests that these relationships are causal.

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Paper provided by Households in Conflict Network in its series HiCN Working Papers with number 132.

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Length: 33 pages
Date of creation: Nov 2012
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Handle: RePEc:hic:wpaper:132

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