Tribe or Nation?: Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania

By Edward Miguel. 2004

748 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Development, Safety Research

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In Demography

1. Pelle Ahlerup
2. Camille Hémet
3. Andries du Toit
4. Volha Charnysh
5. Beatriz Magaloni
6. Prerna Singh
7. Christopher Lucas
8. Samuel Bazzi

In Development

1. Andries du Toit
2. Volha Charnysh
3. Pelle Ahlerup
4. Beatriz Magaloni
5. Prerna Singh
6. Christopher Lucas
7. Samuel Bazzi
8. Ola Olsson

In Safety Research

1. Paul Glewwe
2. S. Hickey
3. Camille Hémet
4. Andries du Toit
5. Volha Charnysh
6. Pelle Ahlerup
7. Beatriz Magaloni
8. Prerna Singh

Citations in the corpus

• The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation (2016, background): “educational outcomes (see, among many others, Katz, Kling, and Liebman [2001], Oreopoulos [2003], Goux and Maurin [2007], and Kling, Liebman, and Katz [2007]).”
• Challenges of African growth opportunities, constraints and strategic directions / Benno Ndulu with Lopamudra Chakraborti, Lebohang Lijane, Vijaya Ramachandran and Jerome Wolgin; advance ed (2007, result): “Miguel (2004) reports a similar finding for Kenya and Tanzania.”
• Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries (2006, background): “19 A recent paper on Tanzania and Kenya by Miguel (2003) provides one example of how public schools affect the cohesiveness of a nation.”
• Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building (2019, positive): “Our findings contribute to a nascent political economy literature on nation building (Alesina and Reich, 2015; Miguel, 2004).”
• Fractionalization and the Size of Government (2007, background): “This Proposition extend Alesina, Baqir, and Easterly’s (1999) and Miguel and Gugerty’s (2003) results on public good provision to redistribution.”
• The Effect of Refugee Inflows on Host Communities (2010, neutral): “Since independence, the government has worked hard to promote unity among its people, and ethnic strife is minimal (Miguel 2004), especially in contrast with its neighbors, Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
• Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion and Chronic Poverty (2007, background): “Nonetheless, history strongly suggests that there is no substitute for the role of the state in securing long-term economic and social transformations, and support for programmes of nation-building need to be prioritised (e.g. Booth with Piron, 2004, Ghani and Lockhart, 2006, also Miguel, 2004).”
• Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities (2013, neutral): “the case with Swahili in post-independence Tanzania (Miguel, 2004).”