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The Causal Effects of Ethnic Diversity: An Instrumental Variables Approach
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| Title: | The Causal Effects of Ethnic Diversity: An Instrumental Variables Approach |
| Authors: | Ahlerup, Pelle |
| Issue Date: | 2009-10-05 |
| Publication type: | report |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Papers in Economics
386 |
| Keywords: | economic development
ethnic diversity
instrumental variables
property rights |
| Abstract: | Ethnic diversity is endogenous to economic development in the long run. Yet the
standard approach in economic research is to treat ethnic diversity as an exogenous
factor. By identifying instruments... more for ethnic diversity, we correct this misspeci ca-
tion and establish that ethnic diversity has an exogenous in uence on income levels,
economic growth, corruption, and provision of public goods. Earlier results based
on OLS estimations may have underestimated the negative e¤ects of high levels of
ethnic diversity. |
| ISSN: | 1403-2465 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/21201 |
| Appears in Collections: | Working papers
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