Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191430 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7405
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the hierarchy in socio-economic positions across the individuals of a society follows ethnolinguistic lines. This index generalizes the idea of between-group inequality to situations where data on economic and ethnolinguistic distances between pairs of individuals is available. We define an estimator of our index that takes the form of a second order U-statistic and has well-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and institutions at the local level in Africa.
Subjects: 
inequality
ethnic diversity
ethnic fractionalization
trust
JEL: 
D31
D63
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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