Ethnic Inequality

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alesina, Alberto; Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias
• 署名单位: Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Brown University; University of London; London Business School
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/685300
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 428-488
• 关键词: economic-growth; REGIONAL INEQUALITY; long-run; CONFLICT; institutions; diversity; QUALITY; origins; income; caste

摘要

This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity inequality for a large sample of countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the homelands of ethnolinguistic groups, we construct measures of ethnic inequality. Second, we uncover a strong inverse association between ethnic inequality and contemporary development above and beyond its relationship with cross-region and cross-administrative unit inequality. Third, we establish that differences in geographic endowments across ethnic homelands explain a sizable fraction of the variation in economic disparities across groups. Fourth, we show that inequality in geographic endowments across ethnic homelands is a negative correlate of development.