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Ethnic diversity, public goods provision and social cohesion : lessons from an inconclusive literature
Schaeffer, Merlin - 2013
Over the last two decades there has been a growing debate on the supposedly negative relation between ethnic diversity, public goods production and social cohesion. Despite the amount of evidence, existing in-depth qualitative reviews conclude that the literature is inconclusive. Advancing upon...
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Why does ethnic diversity undermine public goods provision? : An experimental approach
Habyarimana, James Paul; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, … - 2006
question of why ethnicity matters, we identify three families of mechanisms -- what we term preference, technology, and … these mechanisms in isolation and then to compare the importance of ethnicity in each. Results from experimental games … altruism toward co-ethnics, or for an impact of shared ethnicity on the productivity of teams"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft …
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The roots of ethnic diversity
Ahlerup, Pelle (contributor); Olsson, Ola (contributor) - 2007
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Public goods and ethnic divisions
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
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The roots of ethnic diversity
Ahlerup, Pelle; Olsson, Ola - In: Journal of economic growth 17 (2012) 2, pp. 71-102
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The end of the European welfare states? : migration, ethnic diversity and public goods
Harmon, Nikolaj A. - 2011
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Public investment under ethnic diversity and political uncertainty
Bohn, Frank (contributor) - 2005
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Ethnic diversity and economic development
García Montalvo, José; Reynal-Querol, Marta - In: Journal of development economics 76 (2005) 2, pp. 293-323
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Public goods and ethnic divisions
Alesina, Alberto; Baqir, Reza; Easterly, William - 1999
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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia : further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014
The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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