Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina

doi:10.1257/aer.101.5.1872

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“…The nonreligious were included in this measure because they also represent an important and often substantial subgroup in the religious composition of a country. Our measure correlated highly ( r = .81) with the well‐known religious fractionalization measure by Alesina and colleagues () and by Alesina and Zhuravskaya (). However, due to the limited coverage of European countries by the latter, this correlation was based on 18 countries only.…”

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Does Religion Breed Trust? A Cross‐National Study of the Effects of Religious Involvement, Religious Faith, and Religious Context on Social Trust

Dingemans

Ingen²

2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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Many previous studies have linked religiosity to social trust. Yet much of this relation remains insufficiently understood, which is partly due to the fact that religiosity is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. In this paper we identify several of those dimensions, including the integration in religious communities, the importance of God in people's lives, and the religious context. These dimensions give rise to different mechanisms that produce both trust-enhancing and trust-reducing effects. Data from the European Values Survey (2008) were used to test the resulting hypotheses, using multilevel logistic regression models. We conclude that the micro effects are ambivalent: integration in religious communities furthers trust, whereas religious socialization and the importance of God lower trust. On the macro level, we find a strong effect of Protestantism, which is in line with previous studies, but which remains puzzling since the individual-level difference between Protestants and the other religious traditions was found to be very small. In addition, and contrasting other studies, we found that religious diversity increases social trust.

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Does Religion Breed Trust? A Cross‐National Study of the Effects of Religious Involvement, Religious Faith, and Religious Context on Social Trust

Dingemans

Ingen²

2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…In contrast, the ethnic inequality measure retains its statistical and economic significance. The coefficient on the ethnic Gini is unaffected when we condition on size and geography (in [4], [5], [8], and [9]).…”

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina

Michalopoulos

Papaioannou

2016

Journal of Political Economy

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This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality across countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large sample of countries. We also compile proxies of overall spatial inequality and regional inequality across administrative units. Second, we uncover a strong negative association between ethnic inequality and contemporary comparative development; the correlation is also present when we condition on regional inequality, which is itself related to under-development. Third, we investigate the roots of ethnic inequality and establish that differences in geographic endowments across ethnic homelands explain a sizable fraction of the observed variation in economic disparities across groups. Fourth, we show that ethnic-specific inequality in geographic endowments is also linked to under-development.

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“…14 In addition to social capital, the analysis also considers the degree of ethnic heterogeneity by including an ethnic fractionalization index, as in Gennaioli et al (2013). This is motivated by the fact that higher diversity is generally associated with lower levels of economic development (Alesina & Zhuravskaya, 2011;Beugelsdijk, Klasing & Milionis, 2017 the legacy of history on current TFP differences, we consider each region's historical urban density in 1800 based on data from Bairoch, Batou, and Chevre (1988). We also consider for each region how many cities were historically located on the crossing of two or more Roman roads, which Bosker et al (2013) have shown to be correlated with historical development over the past two millennia.…”

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Regional economic development in Europe: the role of total factor productivity

2017

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Regional economic development in Europe: the role of total factor productivity. Regional Studies. This paper documents the fact that the large and persistent differences in economic development across subnational regions in European Union countries can largely be attributed to differences in total factor productivity (TFP). Applying the technique of development accounting, the paper decomposes differences in output per worker across 257 European Union regions into a component due to the local availability of production factors and a component due to TFP. As the analysis reveals, TFP differences are large even within countries, and are strongly related to economic geography and historical development paths. This suggests limited interregional diffusion of technology and of efficient production practices. L'aménagement du territoire en Europe: le rôle de la productivité globale des facteurs. Regional Studies. Cet article démontre que les importants écarts de développement économique qui persistent à travers les régions infranationales situées dans les pays-membres de l'Union européenne s'expliquent dans une large mesure par les écarts de productivité globales des facteurs (PGF). En appliquant la méthode de la comptabilité de développement (development accounting), on décompose les écarts de rendement par travailleur selon 257 régions de l'Union européenne en une composante relative à la disponibilité locale des facteurs de production et une deuxième composante qui s'explique par la PGF. Comme laisse voir l'analyse, les écarts de PGF s'avèrent importants même au sein des pays, et se rapportent étroitement à la géographie économique et aux sentiers de développement historiques. Cela laisse supposer une diffusion interrégionale limitée de la technologie et des procédés de production efficaces. MOTS-CLÉSaménagement du territoire; productivité globale des facteurs; comptabilité de développement; régions européennes

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross Section of Countries

Cited by 448 publications

References 39 publications

Does Religion Breed Trust? A Cross‐National Study of the Effects of Religious Involvement, Religious Faith, and Religious Context on Social Trust

Does Religion Breed Trust? A Cross‐National Study of the Effects of Religious Involvement, Religious Faith, and Religious Context on Social Trust

Ethnic Inequality

Regional economic development in Europe: the role of total factor productivity

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