Building Nations through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football - A Reproducibility and Replicability Assessment of Depetris-Chauvin et al. (2020)

This reproduction report assesses the reproducibility and replicability of Depetris-Chauvin et al. (2020a). The paper examines the role of national football team performance in major international competitions on nation-building processes within sub-Saharan Africa. The study documents that winning important football matches increases national attachment, fosters trust between ethnic groups, and reduces ethnic conflict. This report focuses on these three main outcomes and conducts several robustness and replicability tests. Overall, the results are well identified and robust to the many plausibility checks which the authors implement themselves. The few additional checks implemented in this report mostly corroborate the original findings.