Search Results - subject:"Fractionalization"

Strulik, Holger - 2011

This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and basic needs matter for consumption. It suggests a new view of the so-called voracity effect according to which windfall gains in productivity induce behavior that leads to lower economic growth....

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Corruption, Growth and Ethnic Fractionalization: a Theoretical Model

Cerqueti, Roy; Coppier, Raffaella; Piga, Gustavo - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2011

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between ethnic fractionalization, corruption and the growth rate of a … country. We provide a simple theoretical model. We show that a nonlinear relationship between fractionalization and corruption … exists: corruption is high in homogeneous or very fragmented countries, but low where fractionalization is intermediate. In …

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Decomposition of ethnic heterogeneity on growth

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Empirical results from a random-effects regression model show that ethnic heterogeneity has a negative effect on growth. The negative effect is seen largely in the hampering of efficiency improvements, but not capital accumulation.

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Death Caused By Natural Disasters: The Role Of Ethnic Heterogeneity

Yamamura, Eiji - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2011

incorporated as independent variables. Further, to control for measurement problems, I have included an ethnic fractionalization … positively related to number of deaths, while ethnic fractionalization is not. This implies that ethnic polarization increases … fractionalization. …

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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Health: Theory and Evidence

Kotera, Go; Mizuno, Nobuhiro; Okada, Keisuke; Samreth, … - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2011

This paper examines the relationship between ethnic composition, political regimes, and the quality of public policy. Specifically, based on the citizen-candidate model, we assume individuals who have heterogeneous policy preferences and investigate how ethnic diversity affects selection of a...

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Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country

Gardeazabal, Javier - Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico … - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Francoٳ dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned. Therefore, there may be some linguistic roots underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We...

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Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country

Gardeazabal, Javier - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Franco's dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned. Therefore, there may be some linguistic roots underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We...

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War signals: a theory of trade, trust and conflict

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other...

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Ethnic and Religious Polarization and Social Conflict

Esteban, Joan; Mayoral, Laura - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2011

fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results …

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