Published in:IIM Bangalore Research Paper ; No. 573
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (13 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3195703
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 14, 2018 erstellt
Description:
We develop a general multi-scale diversity framework to account for spatial segregation of ethnic groups in politically nested geographic aggregations. Our framework explains why the celebrated “diversity-debit hypothesis” in political economy of public goods is sensitive to spatial unit of analysis, and how not accounting for segregation biases empirical diversity-development models. We test our framework using census data from Indian villages (n = 600, 000) and sub-districts containing these villages (n = 6, 000), for twenty-five different public goods