Search Results - subject:"Fractionalization"

Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument

Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015

countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of … receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization increases donors' aid budgets, representing the over-time variation of …

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Ethnic diversity makes me sick! : an examination of ethnic diversity's effect on health outcomes

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Ocloo, Janet Exornam; … - 2015

and linguistic heterogeneity (measured by indices of ethnic and linguistic fractionalization) on 30 health outcome …

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Fractionalization and entrepreneurial activities

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa - 2015

countries. Using indices of ethnic and linguistic fractionalization, we show that ethnic heterogeneity negatively influences … entrepreneurship. We argue that potential channels that can explain the negative effect of fractionalization on entrepreneurship …

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Ethnic diversity and trust : new evidence from Australian data

Mendolia, Silvia; Tosh, Alex; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity and the formation of an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance of trust in facilitating economic growth and development...

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Ethnic diversity and educational attainment

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Nuhu, Ahmed Salim - 2015

cross-section differences in ethnic and linguistic fractionalization can explain a substantial part of the cross … fractionalization and educational attainment. We find that fractionalization lower educational attainment. This finding is consistent …

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Social Fractionalization, Political Instability, and the Size of Government

Annett, Anthony - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper explores the relationship between the degree of division or fractionalization of a country’s population … neoclassical growth model. The principal idea is that greater fractionalization, proxying for the degree of conflict in society …

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