TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnicity and conflict
T2 - An empirical study
AU - Esteban, Joan
AU - Mayoral, Laura
AU - Ray, Debraj
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - We examine empirically the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict, by using a specification based on Esteban and Ray (2011). That theory links conflict intensity to three indices of ethnic distribution: polarization, fractionalization, and the Gini-Greenberg index. The empirical analysis verifies that these distributional measures are significant correlates of conflict. These effects persist as we introduce countryspecific measures of group cohesion and of the importance of public goods, and combine them with the distributional measures exactly as described by the theory.
AB - We examine empirically the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict, by using a specification based on Esteban and Ray (2011). That theory links conflict intensity to three indices of ethnic distribution: polarization, fractionalization, and the Gini-Greenberg index. The empirical analysis verifies that these distributional measures are significant correlates of conflict. These effects persist as we introduce countryspecific measures of group cohesion and of the importance of public goods, and combine them with the distributional measures exactly as described by the theory.
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U2 - 10.1257/aer.102.4.1310
DO - 10.1257/aer.102.4.1310
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84862617501
SN - 0002-8282
VL - 102
SP - 1310
EP - 1342
JO - American Economic Review
JF - American Economic Review
IS - 4
ER -