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preferences for public goods and redistributive policies, and its impact on the degree of fractionalization and polarization …
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preferences for public goods and redistributive policies, and its impact on the degree of fractionalization and polarization …
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preferences for public goods and redistributive policies, and its impact on the degree of fractionalization and polarization …
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fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has been pivotal to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of … for public goods and redistributive policies, and the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic …
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This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
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This paper establishes that the worldwide distribution of political instability has its deep historical roots in genetic diversity, predetermined over the prehistoric course of the exodus of Homo sapiens from East Africa tens of thousands of years ago. It proposes that the relationship between...
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polarization of greenness. Taking the prevalence as a direct and diversity as an inverse measure of the validity of a greenness … polarization of greenness for those either very green or not green at all. This is consistent with the idea that green self … other groups - a possibility that relies on sufficiently large differentiation/polarization of groups. We discuss …
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Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
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Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481675
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL … fractionalization on economic growth using unique time-varying measures across countries, for 26 transition economies from 1989 to 2007 … different estimators, specifications, and fractionalization measures. …
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