Kok, Chun Chee; Lim, Gedeon; Shariat, Danial; Siddique, Abu - 2025
We exploit a population resettlement program of ethnic minorities in Malaysia to identify long-run effects of interethnic proximity on economic and political development. From 1948 to 1951, the colonial government moved 500,000 rural Chinese into hundreds of isolated, mono-ethnic camps. In...