Search Results - subject:"Fractionalization"

Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion: Influences of Childhood Poverty, Family Disruption, and Contact with thePolice

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This study uses data from the National Child Development Studyto examine how experiences during childhood are linked to a widevariety of outcomes in adulthood. A cluster of childhoodexperiences (poverty, family disruption, and contact with thepolice) are given specific attention. One of the main...

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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Campos, Nauro F; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Does fractionalization change over (short periods of) time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic … performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with measures of fractionalization for 26 former … communist countries covering the period from 1989 to 2002. Our fractionalization measures show that transition economies became …

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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Campos, Nauro F.; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To … answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries … covering the period from 1989 to 2002. Our fractionalization measures show that transition economies became more ethnically …

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Signalling in Social Networks: An Empirical Study of Denominational Fractionalization in the USA

Karacuka, Mehmet; Leroch, Martin - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2006

An economic signalling model contributing to the explanation of religious schism is presented. Religious groups are interpreted as a device for exchanging information about and via others. Two effects result. First, the larger the network, the worse the signal quality one receives of the type of...

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The Indirect Effect of Ethnic Heterogeneity on the Likelihood of Civil War Onset

Blimes, Randall J. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 4, pp. 536-547

conflict theory and empirical testing. Most studies that test for a relationship between the level of ethnic fractionalization … show that ethnic fractionalization has an indirect effect on the likelihood of civil war onset. …

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Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset

Hegre, Håvard; Sambanis, Nicholas - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 4, pp. 508-535

In the literature on civil war onset, several empirical results are not robust or replicable across studies. Studies use different definitions of civil war and analyze different time periods, so readers cannot easily determine if differences in empirical results are due to those factors or if...

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Social Composition, Social Conflict, and Economic Development

Strulik, Holger - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2004

at peace economic growth may occur. Growth, however, is decreasing in the degree of social fractionalization and smaller …

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The Curse of Natural Resources in Fractionalized Countries

Hodler, Roland - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2004

This paper develops a model that can explain why natural resources are a curse for some countries, but not for others. In this model, natural resources cause fighting activities between rivalling groups. Fighting reduces productive activities and weakens property rights, making productive...

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Earnings Opacity and the Productivity of Nations

Riahi‐Belkaoui, Ahmed - In: Review of Accounting and Finance 3 (2004) 3, pp. 131-144

Output per worker varies significantly from one country to another. Why? Our analysis shows that differences in earnings opacity are important sources of this variation. Earnings opacity is a measure that reflects how little information there is in a firm's earnings number about its true, but...

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The Influence of Capital Controls on Long Run Growth: Where and How Much?

Chanda, Areendam - EconWPA - 2002

The recent financial crisis in East Asia generated a revival of interest in the merits of financial openness. The ensuing debate on the benefits of openness has focused more on short and medium run issues than on the long run effects. Within the empirical literature on economic growth, little or...

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