期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Ibero America Institute for Economic Research (IAI)
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
出版社：Ibero America Institute for Economic Research
摘要：This paper has the aim of contributing to the existing research by analyzing two
particular topics. First of all, we update the data set used by Alesina et
al.(2003) into the 1990s to analyze the robustness of their results in a wider
time range. Furthermore, we analyze whether the effect of ethnic
fractionalization is the same in different regions, particularly focusing on
Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Secondly, we empirically investigate, if
ethnic fractionalization might be positive in a nation which is ethnically
diverse due to immigration. We try to distinguish between these two different
kinds of ethnic fractionalization in order to determine if the result
empirically indicates this multidimensionality of the index of ethnic
fractionalization.
