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 by skill level. We show that birthplace diversity is largely …

act on them with race-targeted and general redistribution policies. At the same time, white Republicans are more likely to … attribute racial gaps to individual actions. These views are already deeply entrenched in teenagers based on their race and … most strongly with support for race-targeted or general redistribution policies, a finding confirmed by the experimental …

countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …

they reside in districts with a high degree of ethnic inequality. -- Ethnicity ; Diversity ; Inequality ; Development … countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern …