This paper has four goals. The first, and perhaps the most important, is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic, religious...

Does fiscal decentralization lead to more efficient governance, better public goods, and higher economic growth? This paper tests Riker''s theory (1964) that the results of fiscal decentralization depend on the level of countries'' political centralization. We analyze crosssection and panel data...

Can media affect religious behavior? We study the effect of a drastic change in media landscape on religious participation in Poland, a country, where vast majority of the population considers itself Catholics. Before 2015, news on mainstream public and private media outlets had a similar...