ecclesiastical conflicts shows that religous fractionalization likely has negative effects on economic growth. -- Conflict ; religion … ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally …

sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …

We study how cultural distance affects the rejection of imposed institutions. To do so, we exploit the transplantation … of Piedmontese institutions on Southern Italy that occurred during the Italian unification. We assemble a novel and … transplanted institutions is significantly associated with more intense resistance to these institutions. Our results further …

We study how cultural distance affects the rejection of imposed institutions. To this purpose, we exploit the … transplantation of Piedmontese institutions on Southern Italy which occurred during the Italian unification. We assemble a novel and … transplanted institutions is significantly associated with more intense resistance to these institutions. Our results further …

What determines the rejection of exogenously imposed institutions? To address this question, we exploit the … transplantation of institutions that occurred when southern Italy was annexed to Piedmont, during the Italian unification process of … results: a clash between local values and the content of the new institutions, and social identification with the Piedmontese …

natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the …