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Borders and the burdened: colonial partitioning and levels of trust, identity, and discrimination in Africa
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão | pt_PT |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Melnikov, Nikita | |
| dc.contributor.author | Velloso, Maria Mafalda Pereira Coutinho de Sepúlveda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-21T11:37:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-21T11:37:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-01-20 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2024-12-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis exploits the long-run effects of ethnic partitioning on trust, national identity, and feelings of discrimination within ethnic groups across 29 Sub-Saharan countries. Combining individual data from Afrobarometer (2005-2023) with the pre-colonial location of ethnic homelands, I find a significant effect of exogenously defined borders on current attitudes. Difference-in-differences estimates show that individuals from majority segments within partitioned groups exhibit lower trust, weaker national identification, and perceptions of discriminatory political systems. Overall, the findings highlight how colonial borders persistently deteriorate social cohesion. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.tid | 203958713 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/185383 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | UID/ECO/00124/2013 | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Afrobarometer | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Colonial partitioning | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Ethnicity | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Trust | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Identity | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Political discrimination | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Borders and the burdened: colonial partitioning and levels of trust, identity, and discrimination in Africa | pt_PT |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | masterThesis | pt_PT |
| thesis.degree.name | A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Master’s degree in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics | pt_PT |