Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?

By James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, J. Weinstein. American Political Science Review, 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, background): “In a more microeconomic context, Habyarimana et al. (2007) report that in a variety of games, co-ethnic participants from a sample of slum dwellers in Kampala, Uganda, play cooperative strategies more so than players from different ethnic groups.”
Team-Specific Capital and Innovation (2018, background): “51 See, e.g., Easterly and Levine (1997); Alesina and Spolaore (1997); La Ferrara (2007); Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004); Habyarimana et al. (2007); and Hjort (2014).”
Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities (2013, neutral): “Habyarimana et al. (2007) find evidence in the lab for the importance of third-party enforcement in sustaining public goods provision in a Ugandan sample, echoing Fehr and G€achter (2000).”
Cooperation and Discrimination within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City (2016, neutral): “Since experimental evidence suggests that the mere taste for discrimination cannot account for intergroup discrimination in natural environments (see Fershtman and Gneezy, 2001; Habyarimana et al., 2007), we investigate”
Does Foreign Aid Target the Poorest? (2016, background): “These collective action problems are usually harder to overcome in more ethnically diverse communities (Habyarimana et al. 2007; Miguel 2004; Lieberman and McClendon 2013).”
Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure (2020, background): “in an in-group object to their tax contributions being used to support individuals in out-groups (Habyarimana et al., 2007).”
The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria (2014, background): “26 Habyarimana et al. 2007; Habyarimana et al. 2009.”
Motives for sharing in social networks (2012, background): “Habyarimana et al. (2007) conduct experiments in urban Uganda in which they vary whether or not the subjects meet the recipient.”
Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms (2014, neutral): “Habyarimana et al. (2007) uses a similar classification, but their focus is on explaining why public goods provision is lower in diverse societies.”
Introduction to Special Issue on “Disaggregating Civil War” (2009, methodology): “…considerable use of innovative methods and analyses, including experiments to evaluate more directly how individuals respond to varying treatments (Habyarimana et al. 2007), surveys of former participants in violent acts (Weinstein 2006), ethnographic data from fieldwork in conflict zones (Wood…”