Search Results - subject:"Fractionalization" - EconBiz

The market-promoting and market-preserving role of social trust in reforms of policies and institutions

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017

ability to overcome obstacles in the political process (stemming from ideology, ideological fractionalization, coalition …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603967

A dissimilarity-adjusted index of ethnic diversity: Measurement and implications for findings on conflict, growth and trade

Kolo, Philipp - 2016

religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (DELF) is based on highly …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422513

Discriminatory attitudes and indigenous language promotion: Challenges and solutions

Ramachandran, Rajesh; Rauh, Christopher - 2016

In this paper, we analyse which channels influence individual preferences concerning the choice of the official language in Zambia. We develop a theoretical framework, which is tested using data on elicited beliefs about the effects of changes in Zambia's language policy on schooling outcomes,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532407

A dissimilarity-adjusted index of ethnic diversity : measurement and implications for findings on conflict, growth and trade

Kolo, Philipp - 2016 - Draft version from December 2015

religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (DELF) is based on highly …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421911

Discriminatory attitudes and indigenous language promotion : challenges and solutions

Ramachandran, Rajesh; Rauh, Christopher - 2016

In this paper, we analyse which channels influence individual preferences concerning the choice of the official language in Zambia. We develop a theoretical framework, which is tested using data on elicited beliefs about the effects of changes in Zambia's language policy on schooling outcomes,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485828

Ethnic diversity and poverty

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791862

Distance-based social index numbers : a unifying approach

Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Weber, Shlomo - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243895

Ethnic diversity and human capital development in India : a disaggregated analysis at the state and district levels

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Madhoo, Yeti Nisha; Nath, Shyam - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 5, pp. 506-518

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197429

Do weak institutions prolong crises? : on the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps

Bluhm, Richard; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Szirmai, Adam - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 34 (2020) 3, pp. 810-832

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387541

Linguistic fractionalization and health information in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gomes, Joseph Flavian - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 34 (2020), pp. S20-S25

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