The long-term impact of church activity on social capital: lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia

<p>This is a basic set of variables used in the paper "The long-term impact of church activity on social capital: lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia", co-authored by &Scaron;těp&aacute;n Mikula (Masaryk Unversity, IZA), Fabio Sabatini (Sapienza University of Rome, IZA), and Tommaso Reggiani (Cardiff University, Masaryk Unversity, IZA). The first draft of the paper is available as a MUNI ECON working paper (<a href="https://doi.org/10.5817/WP_MUNI_ECON_2023-03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOI 10.5817/WP_MUNI_ECON_2023-03</a>), which also includes a detailed data description.</p> <p>The current dataset is restricted to variables that are available from open sources. We are not allowed to share the complete set of variables publically.</p> <p>The table contains the following variables:</p> <ul> <li>KOD_OBEC...Municipality ID defined by <a href="https://apl2.czso.cz/iSMS/cisdet.jsp?kodcis=43">CISOB codebook</a>.</li> <li>dieceze...Diocese name (as defined in pre-1989 period)</li> <li>year</li> <li>church...Indicator variable for the presence of a church building in the municipality in 1945</li> <li>ngo_all...Density of NGOs</li> <li>ngo_other...Density of church-unrelated NGOs</li> <li>ngo_church...Density church-related NGOs</li> <li>priest_years...priests' tenure (years)</li> <li>ger_share...Share of ethnic Germans in 1930 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2021.103385">Guzi et al. 2021</a>)</li> <li>population1950...Population in 1950 (<a href="https://csu.gov.cz/produkty/historicky-lexikon-obci-1869-az-2015">Historick&yacute; atlas</a>)</li> <li>TRI_mean...Terrain Roughness Index</li> <li>CZdist...Distance to the country border</li> </ul>