The effect of adaptive capacity to malaria on subjective welfare in Ghana

Christian, Aaron Kobina; Akpalu, Wisdom

doi:10.1016/j.indic.2020.100097

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“…It also reduces profitable trade expansions to malarious regions. These burdens are found mostly in poorer areas (Krefis et al 2010;Were et al 2018;Christian and Akpalu 2021), whereas the rich groups have resources to either force or employ people of the lower castes to labor in malaria-ridden environments and this in turn contributes to inequality (Webb 2009).…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Inequality and Social Identity: Micro-Level Evidence Using a Measure of Perceived Economic Position

Adera¹,

Tabakis²

2021

SSRN Journal

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Although several theories have it that income inequality shapes social identity formation,there has been hardly any conclusive evidence in large multi ethnic environments. A recent wave of scholarship attributes the absence of such results to the use of objective measures of inequality. Drawing from this strand of the literature, we test the hypothesis that perceived inequality dissipates the sense of belonging to a nation. Employing individual level survey data from 3-7 rounds of the Afrobarometer, we find that individuals reporting higher inequality tend to identify less with their nation vis a vis their ethnicity. The results are robust to accounting for reverse causation as well as to the inclusion of controls and are not driven by unobservables. We get suggestive evidence that violence and negative "sociotropic" evaluations are the mechanisms as to why inequality reinforces sub-national identity.

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Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%