⚔️ Combat Experience Matters: The effects are driven by direct combat exposure (DCE). Veterans with combat experience donate show strong parochial preferences, highlighting how traumatic experiences shape social preferences.

📊 Main Results: Conflict exposure significantly reduces donations to out-group members. No significant effect on in-group donations, suggesting conflict increases parochialism mainly through out-group derogation rather than in-group favoritism. 💰

🚨 New QAPEC discussion paper!

We study how exposure to armed conflict shapes prosocial behavior using a natural experiment in Turkey, where random military deployment during mandatory service lets us identify the causal effects of conflict exposure on altruistic preferences.

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