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Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds : an experiment in Xinjiang, China

Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018

We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which within and between group interactions occur among...

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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria

Archibong, Belinda - 2016

Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...

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Vertical and horizontal decentralization and ethnic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa

Ranis, Gustav - 2012

Vertical decentralization, either at the deconcentration, delegation or, more rarely, the devolution level, has been instituted in most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. It usually has the effect of increasing the quantity as well as the quality, in terms of health and education, of public goods....

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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria

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Land, cultural dispossession and resistance : Afro-descendent and indigenous peoples in the Americas

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Ethnic differences in transition to first marriage in Iran

Torabi, Fatemeh; Baschieri, Angela - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 2, pp. 29-62

This paper, using data from the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey and a range of time-varying district-level contextual information derived from the 1986 and 1996 censuses of Iran, applies a discrete time hazard model to study ethnic differences in womenâ€™s transition to first...

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Vertical and Horizontal Decentralization and Ethnic Diversity

Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that … correlation between formal national institutions and economic development has to be carefully interpreted. …

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Further Evidence on the Link between Pre-Colonial Political Centralization and Comparative Economic Development in Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the link between pre-colonial statehood and contemporary regional African development, as reflected in …-country analysis reveals a strong positive correlation between pre-colonial political centralization and contemporary development (and …

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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals … a strong association between pre-colonial centralization and contemporary comparative development both across and within … countries. We also document that the strong link between pre-colonial political centralization and regional development -as …

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