Fractionalization

A Alesina; A Devleeschauwer; W Easterly; S Kurlat; Romain Wacziarg; A Alesina; A Devleeschauwer; W Easterly; S Kurlat; Romain Wacziarg

Fractionalization

A Alesina,
A Devleeschauwer,
W Easterly,
S Kurlat,
Romain Wacziarg,
A Alesina,
A Devleeschauwer,
W Easterly,
S Kurlat,
Romain Wacziarg

December 31, 2003

We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literaturer and we compare our new variables with those previously used. We also revisit the question of the effects of ethnic, linguistic and religious heterogeneity on the quality of institutions and growth.

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