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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2014

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic … political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social … decentralisation can reduce deforestation by delegating powers to more homogeneous communities …

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2012

This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large...

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Family Ties

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013

, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review and extend the literature on the effect of family ties on economic behavior …

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality

Goff, Leonard - 2016

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies among individuals. Its correlation with both...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...

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Structural Reforms and Elections : Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020

We assemble two unique databases. One is on reforms in domestic finance, external finance, trade, product markets and labor markets, which covers 90 advanced and developing economies from 1973 to 2014. The other is on electoral results and timing of elections. In the 66 democracies considered in...

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The Political Economy of Capital Controls

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2008

This paper calculates international income transfers which implement a Pareto optimal trade equilibrium in a world …

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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being : Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

Aknin, Lara B. - 2018

This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive …

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) 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,...

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