Ethnic diversity, social sanctions, and public goods in Kenya

By Edward Miguel, Mary Kay Gugerty. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research

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Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana (2020, neutral): “Rural infrastructure improvements, such as bore wells or spring protection, have suffered from poor governance, frequent outages, and recontamination of water between collection and consumption (Wright et al. 2004; Miguel and Gugerty 2005; Kremer et al. 2011), leading to interest in household water ”
Trust, Growth and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications (2013, neutral): “In the same vein, higher ethnic diversity is associated with lower cooperation as measured by the level of funding and the quality of public goods (Alesina et al. 1999 and Miguel and Gugerty 2005).”
Ethnic Diversity and Poverty (2017, background): “Yet another possible explanation is that community social sanctions stimulate collective action, but such sanctions are weaker in more ethnically diverse communities, in which social interaction between different ethnic groups is less common (Miguel & Gugerty, 2005).”
Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement, and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico (2014, background): “Studies finding evidence of the impact of social heterogeneity in public good provision across nations and within countries include Alesina and La Ferrara (2000), Khwaja (2009), Miguel (2004), Miguel and Gugerty (2005), DaytonJohnson (2000), and Baqir (2002).”
Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South (2012, neutral): “A few recent papers in economics have looked at Southern history for insights into the political economy of development, although none use the same data or identification strategy as this paper. Besley, Persson and Sturm (2009) look at state-year variation in the abolition of suffrage restrictions t”
Leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia (2015, background): “Local authorities in developing countries often wield substantial power, and some evidence shows large authority fixed effects in community development outcomes, including the provision of public goods (Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004; Miguel and Gugerty, 2005).”
Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, background): “Social sanctions within ethnic communities help overcome collective action problems (Glennerster et al., 2010; Miguel and Gugerty, 2005).”
The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, methodology): “We use the polarization measure from Montalvo and Reynal Querol (2005). This index satisfies the condi tions for a desirable index of polarization in the axiomatic approach of Esteban and Ray (1994):”