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On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict / Francesco Caselli, Wilbur John Coleman II.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caselli, Francesco.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12125.
- NBER working paper series no. w12125
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- We present a theory of ethnic conflict in which coalitions formed along ethnic lines compete for the economy's resources. The role of ethnicity is to enforce coalition membership: in ethnically homogeneous societies members of the losing coalition can defect to the winners at low cost, and this rules out conflict as an equilibrium outcome. We derive a number of implications of the model relating social, political, and economic indicators such as the incidence of conflict, the distance among ethnic groups, group sizes, income inequality, and expropriable resources.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2006.
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