Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
By A. Alesina, E. Zhuravskaya. 2011
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This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic, religious and linguistic groups within the same country. The second goal is to correlate measures of segregation with measures of quality of the polity and policymaking. The third is to construct an instrument that helps to overcome the endogeneity problem due to the fact that groups move within country borders, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a substantially lower quality of government. In contrast, there is no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality.
Subfields: Demography, Education, Political Science and International Relations
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In Demography
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Citations in the corpus
- Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe1 (2019, methodology): “The dissimilarity index is highly correlated with other measures of segregation, and in particular with the index used by Alesina and Zhuravskaya (2011), for which we obtain a correlation coefficient of 0.”
- Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda (2012, positive): “Columns (6)-(8) show that the results of column (2) carry over to all alternative measures of violence.”
- Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, methodology): “Similarly, the measure of segregation used by De Luca et al. (2015), from Alesina and Zhuravskaya (2011), relies on data that significantly underestimates subnational diversity (see Gershman & Rivera, 2016).”
- Ethnic Diversity and Poverty (2017, methodology): “A large body of literature suggests that ethnic diversity is negatively related to social capital, especially trust and social networks (Alesina & Zhuravskaya, 2011; Dincer, 2011; Leigh, 2006; Sturgis, Brunton-Smith, Read, & Allum, 2011).”
- Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building (2019, positive): “These results are consistent with Alesina and Zhuravskaya (2011) who show that ethnic segregation matters for political economy outcomes above and beyond overall ethnic diversity.”