Work

Fractionalization

Year: 2003

Type: report

Abstract: We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries.These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literature and we compare our new variables with those previously used.We also revisit the question of the effects of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization on quality of institutions and growth.We partly confirm and partly modify previous results.The patterns of cross-correlations between potential explanatory variables and their different degree of endogeneity makes it hard to make unqualified statements about competing explanations for economic growth and the quality of government.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w9411

Authors: Alberto Alesina, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Easterly, Sergio Kurlat, Romain Wacziarg

Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, World Bank, Harvard University, Stanford University

Language: English

Topic: Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4245987826

Cites: 44

Cited by: 420

Related to: 10