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Replication data for: War, Inflation, and Social Capital
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http://doi.org/10.3886/E113465V1
Sergei Guriev
Nikita Melnikov
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Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Guriev, Sergei, and Melnikov, Nikita. Replication data for: War, Inflation, and Social Capital. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113465V1
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
E31 Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
P24 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: National Income, Product, and Expenditure; Money; Inflation
P25 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
P36 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitio Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
We use weekly data from 79 Russian regions to measure the impact of economic shocks and proximity to war in Ukraine on social capital in Russian regions. We proxy social capital by the relative intensity of internet searches for the most salient dimensions of pro-social behavior such as "donate blood", "charity", "adopt a child" etc. This measure of social capital is correlated with a survey-based measure of generalized social trust. Our search-based measure of social capital responds negatively to the spikes of inflation and positively to the intensity of the conflict in Ukraine (controlling for region and week fixed effects).