Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study

By Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray. 2012

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Subfields: Demography, Development, Sociology and Political Science

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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938 (2014, background): “Revolution and conflict have many causes including economic shocks (Berger and Spoerer, 2001) and ethnical conflict (Esteban et al. 2012).”
Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts (2011, background): “30 Esteban et al. (2012) also find that ethnic fractionalization does not heighten the risk generated by oil discoveries”
Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity (2017, methodology): “Results seem to depend on which measures of diversity are used: using fractionalization, Fearon and Laitin (2003) find little evidence of an effect on conflict onset.”
Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia (2016, methodology): “As with others using these types of measures in the economics literature (e.g., Desmet et al., 2009; Esteban et al., 2012), we view linguistic proximity as reflecting not only ease of communication but also cultural proximity, shared preferences, and hence the fluidity of potential interactions betw”
Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization (2011, methodology): “This is precisely the system described in Proposition 3.1 of Esteban and Ray (1999), with s in place of p and c(r) ≡ (1/θ)r θ .”
Cultural diversity and economic growth: Evidence from the US during the age of mass migration (2013, background): “Montalvo and Reynal-Querol, 2003, 2005a,b, 2008; Esteban and Ray, 1999, 2010 and Esteban et al. 2010). An additional contribution of our paper is that our state-fixed effects estimates reveal a significant reversion of counties’ cultural fractionalization and 3Our finding is in line with Kim (2007),”
The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “Countries that are more ethnically homogenous are more likely to avoid conflict in the presence of mineral resources (Bjorvatn and Naghavi, 2011; Brunnschweiler and Bulte, 2009; Esteban et al., 2012; Herbst, 2000; Hodler, 2006).”