| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20504 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20504 |
| Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia | |
| Alberto Alesina; Caterina Gennaioli; Stefania Lovo | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-09-18 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit the exogenous timing of variations in the level of ethnic heterogeneity due to the creation of new jurisdictions. We provide evidence consistent with a lower control of politicians, through electoral punishment, in more ethnically fragmented districts. Our results bring a new perspective on the political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social capital in ethnically diverse societies and suggest that when the underlying communities are ethnically fractionalized decentralisation can reduce deforestation by delegating powers to more homogeneous communities. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20504 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578176 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alberto Alesina,Caterina Gennaioli,Stefania Lovo. Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia. 2014. |
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