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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia
Alesina, Alberto - 2014
This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458163
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Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities
Glennerster, Rachel - 2010
Scholars have pointed to ethnic and other social divisions as a leading cause of economic underdevelopment, due in part to their adverse effects on public good provision and collective action. We investigate this issue in post-war Sierra Leone, one of the world's poorest countries. To address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462461
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Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance
Alesina, Alberto - 2004
We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on both focus both cities in developed countries (the US) and villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468381
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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
Alesina, Alberto - 1997
We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472809
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Insiders and Outsiders : Local Ethnic Politics and Public Goods Provision
Munshi, Kaivan - 2015
We examine the role of ethnic politics at the local level in supplying public goods within a framework that incorporates two sides to ethnic groups: an inclusionary side associated with internal cooperation and an exclusionary side associated with the disregard for others. The inclusionary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456950
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A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Shimamoto, Daichi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
those who lose by a very small margin in the sample of procurement auctions from Indonesia, suggesting that bidders collude …-procurement auctions and about 3% for all auctions in Indonesia. We cannot reject the null of competition in other countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334488
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Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
Bazzi, Samuel - 2019
We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of intergroup contact on national … and integration declines. Residential segregation dampens these effects. Social capital, public goods, and ethnic conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479635
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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453094
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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation
Bayard, Kimberly - 1999
the patterns of racial and ethnic segregation within occupation, industry, establishments, and occupation …-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of … establishment and job cell. Our results indicate that greater segregation between Hispanic men and white men than between Hispanic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471803
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
us to measure segregation of different ethnic, religious and linguistic groups within the same country. The second goal … is to correlate measures of segregation with measures of quality of the polity and policymaking. The third is to … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464332