Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative e.ects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on communities of di.erent size and organizational structure, such as countries, cities in developed countries, villages and groups in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open i...

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance 1

We survey and asses the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on countries, on cities in developed countries (the US) and on villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open issues in need of further research.

Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars

We develop a con‡ict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed public-private good. We analyze how the level of dissipation changes as the population distribution and the share of publicness of the prize change. First, we …nd that, in case of pur...

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance Alberto Alesina and Eliana

We survey and asses the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on countries, on cities in developed countries (the US) and on villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open issues in need of further research. Alberto Alesina Departmen...

Economic Impacts of Immigrants and Ethnic Diversity on Cities