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dc.contributor.authorCampos, Nauro F.en
dc.contributor.authorSaleh, Ahmaden
dc.contributor.authorKuzeyev, Vitaliy S.en
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-27-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T12:03:48Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T12:03:48Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35886-
dc.description.abstractIn their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the measurement of diversity and the other to treat diversity as an endogenous variable. This paper tries to address these two issues: it investigates the effects of ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the finding of a weak effect of exogenous diversity on growth and then we show that accounting for how diversity changes over time and treating it as an endogenous variable makes a difference. Once diversity is instrumented (with lagged diversity and latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization measures, econometric estimators, as well as to the use of an index of ethnic-religious-linguistic fractionalization.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4597en
dc.subject.jelO11en
dc.subject.jelZ12en
dc.subject.jelO55en
dc.subject.jelH1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordEthnic diversityen
dc.subject.keywordfractionalizationen
dc.subject.keywordpolarizationen
dc.subject.keywordgrowthen
dc.subject.stwEthnische Beziehungenen
dc.subject.stwSegregationen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftswachstumen
dc.subject.stwÜbergangswirtschaften
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwTransformationsstaatenen
dc.titleDynamic ethnic fractionalization and economic growth in the transition economies from 1989 to 2007-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn617269505en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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