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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McCoy, Shawn J.
• McDonough, Ian K.
• Roychowdhury, Punarjit

Titel

The Impact of  Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting

Ist Teil von

• Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, 2020-06, Vol.82 (3), p.526-548

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We examine the impact of terrorism on social capital by exploiting variation in the 2014 European Social Survey administration dates coupled with the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, France. Using the difference‐in‐differences estimator, we find that the attack had a positive, causal impact on the overall level of social capital among French respondents. Further, the effect seems to be driven by an increase in institutional and interpersonal trust, as well as by engagement in social networks. This rise in social capital peaks in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack but subsequently decays to pre‐attack levels within approximately one month.