Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2011
This paper characterizes an index that is informationally richer than the commonly used ethno …‐linguistic fractionalization (ELF) index. Our measure of fractionalization takes as a primitive the individuals, as opposed to ethnic groups, and … individuals are pre‐assigned to exogenously determined categories or groups. We provide an empirical illustration of how our index …