{"id":1323,"date":"2011-03-16T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2011-03-18T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T13:23:09","slug":"exposure-to-civil-war-and-propensity-toward-violent-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1323","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to Civil War and Propensity Toward Violent Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Chris Blattman <a title=\"Soccer Wars\" href=\"http:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2011\/03\/14\/soccer-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\">linked<\/a> to an\u00a0interesting, clever new <a title=\"Civil War Exposure and Violence\" href=\"http:\/\/dss.ucsd.edu\/~ssaiegh\/soccer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> by Miguel et al.:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In recent years scholars have begun to focus on the consequences of individuals\u2019 exposure to civil war, including its severe health and psychological consequences. Our innovation is to move beyond the survey methodology that is widespread in this literature to analyze the actual behavior of individuals with varying degrees of exposure to civil war in a common institutional setting. We exploit the presence of thousands of international soccer (football) players with di\ufb00erent exposures to civil con\ufb02ict in the European professional leagues, and \ufb01nd a strong relationship between the extent of civil con\ufb02ict in a player\u2019s home country and his propensity to behave violently on the soccer \ufb01eld, as measured by yellow and red cards. This link is robust to region \ufb01xed e\ufb00ects, country characteristics (e.g. rule of law, per capita income), player characteristics (e.g. age, \ufb01eld position, quality), outliers, and team \ufb01xed e\ufb00ects. Reinforcing our claim that we isolate the e\ufb00ect of civil war exposure rather than simple rule breaking or something else entirely, there is no meaningful correlation between our measure of exposure to civil war and soccer performance measures not closely related to violent conduct. The result is also robust to controlling for civil wars before a player\u2019s birth, suggesting that it is not driven by factors from the distant historical past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what explains the determinants of violent behavior in hockey, which is a pretty violent sport in which players mostly come from countries that have not known civil conflict.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jimZ1tSdPY0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Chris Blattman linked to an\u00a0interesting, clever new paper by Miguel et al.:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-ll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}