| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12378 |
| DP12378 Ethnic Geography: Measurement and Evidence | |
| Roland Hodler; Alberto Vesperoni | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-10-16 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we can decompose this index into indices of spatial dispersion, generalized ethnic fractionalization, and the alignment of spatial and ethnic distances. We use maps of traditional ethnic homelands, historical population density data, and language trees to compute these four indices for more than 150 countries. We apply these indices to study the relation between historical ethnic geography and current economic, political and social outcomes. Among other things, we document that countries with higher historical alignment, i.e., countries where ethnically diverse individuals lived far apart, have higher-quality government, higher incomes and higher levels of trust. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth |
| 关键词 | Ethnic diversity Ethnic geography Segregation Fractionalization Quality of government Economic development Trust |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12378 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541189 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roland Hodler,Alberto Vesperoni. DP12378 Ethnic Geography: Measurement and Evidence. 2017. |
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