Intergroup contact and nation building: Evidence from military service in Spain

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We study the long-term effects of intergroup contact on nation building by exploiting a national lottery that randomly allocated conscripts to different military areas across Spain. For men born in regions feature weak Spanish identity, we find being assigned service region substantially increases self-identification as Spanish, likelihood voting elections and reduces probability for regionalist party. Moreover, support main mechanism behind these results, movers are more likely than nonmovers have friends from other regions.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0047-2727', '1879-2316']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104477