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Inequality, Ethnicity and Civil Conflict

Huber, John D.; Mayoral, Laura - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing on the mediating role of ethnic identity. Using...

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Ethnic and Religious Polarization and Social Conflict

Esteban, Joan; Mayoral, Laura - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results … quality of the fit. Our measure of polarization outperforms the measure used by Montalvo and Reynal-Querol (2005) and the …

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Polarization: Concepts, Measurement, Estimation

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we develop the measurement theory of polarization for the case in which … polarization indices that can be used to compare polarization across time or entities. Distribution-free statistical inference … results are also derived in order to ensure that the orderings of polarization across entities are not simply due to sampling …

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Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization

Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

function of the Gini coefficient, the Herfindahl-Hirschman fractionalization index, and a specific measure of polarization due …

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo; Troiano, Ugo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...

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Structural Development Accounting

Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

In this paper, we construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components of our...

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Growth and Violence: Argument for a Per Capita Measure of Civil War

Mueller, Hannes - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

This article proposes a new measure of civil war. The measure defines violence intensity in casualties per capita instead of number of casualties. We discuss the assumptions behind this per capita model and the existing standard model. We show that the two measures behave differently in standard...

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The Longevity of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein

Croix, David de la; Licandro, Omar - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

We build a unique dataset of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi's epoch and 1879, Einstein's birth year. It includes, among other variables, the vital dates, occupations, and locations of celebrities from the Index Bio-bibliographicus Notorum Hominum (IBN), a very comprehensive...

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“The Child is Father of the Man:” Implications for the Demographic Transition

Croix, David de la; Licandro, Omar - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. This theory is embodied in an OLG framework where fertility, longevity and education all result from individual decisions. The...

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Electoral Platforms, Implemented Policies, and Abstention

Llavador, Humberto - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

Recent studies of American politics evidence that political polarization of both the electorate and the political elite … have moved "almost in tandem for the past half century" (McCarty et al., 2003, p.2), and that party polarization has …

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