Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions Export

@article{alesina_public_1999, abstract = {We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related data sets: U. S. cities, U. S. metropolitan areas, and U. S. urban counties. Results show that the shares of spending on productive public goods-education, roads, sewers and trash pickup-in U. S. cities (metro areas/urban counties) are inversely related to the city's (metro area's/county's) ethnic fragmentation, even after controlling for other socioeconomic and demographic determinants. We conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances.}, author = {Alesina, Alberto and Baqir, Reza and Easterly, William}, citeulike-article-id = {2331782}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533\\%28199911\\%29114\\%3A4\\%3C1243\\%3APGAED\\%3E2.0.CO\\%3B2-N}, journal = {The Quarterly Journal of Economics}, keywords = {bibtex-import, socialcapital, thesis}, month = {November}, pages = {1243--1284}, posted-at = {2008-02-04 22:44:24}, priority = {2}, title = {Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions}, url = {http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533\\%28199911\\%29114\\%3A4\\%3C1243\\%3APGAED\\%3E2.0.CO\\%3B2-N}, volume = {114}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - alesina_public_1999 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2331782 N2 - We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related data sets: U. S. cities, U. S. metropolitan areas, and U. S. urban counties. Results show that the shares of spending on productive public goods-education, roads, sewers and trash pickup-in U. S. cities (metro areas/urban counties) are inversely related to the city's (metro area's/county's) ethnic fragmentation, even after controlling for other socioeconomic and demographic determinants. We conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances. JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics EP - 1284 TI - Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions VL - 114 SP - 1243 KW - bibtex-import KW - socialcapital KW - thesis AU - Alesina, Alberto AU - Baqir, Reza AU - Easterly, William PY - 1999/November// UR - http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533\\%28199911\\%29114\\%3A4\\%3C1243\\%3APGAED\\%3E2.0.CO\\%3B2-N ER -