Civil-war violence and postwar human capital and social relationships
- 日 時
1月26日（金）/ 17:00－19:00 - 会 場
早稲田キャンパス3号館 703教室 - 講演者
Barry Hashimoto（Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah） - 討論者
久保慶一（早稲田大学教授） - 参 加
無料、どなたでも参加できます。 - 言 語
英語
Barry Hashimoto and Stefan Priebe, “The destruction of human capital and social relationships in the death of Yugoslavia: An investigation of mental trauma and other causal mechanisms.” Manuscript, American University of Sharjah, UAE.
The complex effects of civil war on political and economic development have given rise to a new micro-empirical literature focusing on mechanisms. We investigate how civil-war violence influences postwar human capital and social relationships using face-to-face surveys in five Balkan states (N=3,313). We argue that war damages human capital and social relationships through a mental-trauma mechanism: people suffering from mental disorders caused by civil-war violence adopt avoidance strategies. We identify this mechanism using a clinically validated field instrument for detecting mental disorders, informative measures violence exposure, multiple measures of human capital and relationships, and causal mediation analysis conditioned on prewar confounders. A persistent and statistically significant mental- trauma mechanism explains much of the harm that wartime violence does to postwar life. Our findings add a new note of pessimism to reports that civil-war violence destroys human capital and stokes exclusionary politics, but may boost collective action among people with shared identities.
