the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national …

the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national …

heterogeneity or fractionalization index and the discrete polarization index. However, still no broad consensus is reached on which …-linear way three different aspects of ethnic diversity, namely the fractionalization, the polarization and the ethnic dominance … groups. Following the Esteban and Ray [On the measurement of polarization, Econometrica, 62(4), 1994] approach to social …

outcome (growth, incidence of civil wars) and index (fractionalization, discrete polarization). Second, we find that, in case … fractionalization index. This may explain the sensitiveness of empirical evidence on the impact of ethnic diversity with respect to … of pure private goods, smaller groups always contribute more and so the fractionalization index under-estimates their …

In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL … ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the … latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization …

the concept of ethnic fractionalization is a strong predictive measure for the direct effect of ethnicity on growth …, whereas the concept of ethnic polarization has non-negligible indirect economic effects through the specified channel …