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Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional...

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State Capacity and Military Conflict

Gennaioli, Nicola; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In 1500, Europe was composed of hundreds of statelets and principalities, with weak central authority, no monopoly over the legitimate use of violence, and multiple, overlapping levels of jurisdiction. By 1800, Europe had consolidated into a handful of powerful, centralized nation states. We...

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Ethnicity and the spread of civil war

Bosker, Maarten; de Ree, Joppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

. Also, they are context dependent. Ethnicity in particular plays a key role in the spread of civil war. Only ethnic civil …

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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

institutional structures across the national border do not explain within-ethnicity differences in economic performance, as captured …

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Further Evidence on the Link between Pre-Colonial Political Centralization and Comparative Economic Development in Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the link between pre-colonial statehood and contemporary regional African development, as reflected in satellite images on light density at night. We employ a variety of historical maps to capture the former. Our within-country analysis reveals a strong positive correlation between...

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Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

identify with their ethnic group as often as with the nation pointing to the salience of ethnicity. Second, we focus on the … the economy and the polity. Third, we elaborate on a prominent dimension of ethnicity, that of the degree of complexity of …

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina, Alberto F; Michalopoulos, Stelios; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This study explores the consequences and origins of contemporary differences in well-being across ethnic groups within countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with satellite images of light density at night....

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Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural … diversity and negatively associated with the overlap between culture and ethnicity. Finally, although only a small portion of a …

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