Ethnic diversity and economic development Export

@article{montalvoreynal05, abstract = {This paper analyzes the role that different indices and dimensions of ethnicity play in the process of economic development. Firstly, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of alternative data sources for the construction of indices of religious and ethnic heterogeneity. Secondly, we compare the index of fractionalization and the index of polarization. We argue that an index of the family of discrete polarization measures is the adequate indicator to measure potential conflict. We find that ethnic (religious) polarization has a large and negative effect on economic development through the reduction of investment and the increase of government consumption and the probability of a civil conflict.}, author = {Montalvo, Jose G. and Reynal-Querol, Marta}, citeulike-article-id = {3843054}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.01.002}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304387804001129}, doi = {10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.01.002}, issn = {03043878}, journal = {Journal of Development Economics}, keywords = {diversity, growth, religion}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {293--323}, posted-at = {2009-01-02 20:16:18}, priority = {2}, title = {Ethnic diversity and economic development}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.01.002}, volume = {76}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - montalvoreynal05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3843054 N2 - This paper analyzes the role that different indices and dimensions of ethnicity play in the process of economic development. Firstly, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of alternative data sources for the construction of indices of religious and ethnic heterogeneity. Secondly, we compare the index of fractionalization and the index of polarization. We argue that an index of the family of discrete polarization measures is the adequate indicator to measure potential conflict. We find that ethnic (religious) polarization has a large and negative effect on economic development through the reduction of investment and the increase of government consumption and the probability of a civil conflict. IS - 2 JF - Journal of Development Economics SN - 03043878 EP - 323 TI - Ethnic diversity and economic development VL - 76 SP - 293 KW - diversity KW - growth KW - religion AU - Montalvo, Jose AU - Reynal-Querol, Marta PY - 2005/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.01.002 ER -