SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH

Economics and Politics - Tập 18 Số 2 - Trang 103-120 - 2006
William Easterly1, Jozef M. M. Ritzen2, Michael Woolcock3
1New York University and Center for Global Development
2Maastricht University
3The World Bank and Harvard University

Tóm tắt

We present evidence that measures of “social cohesion,” such as income inequality and ethnic fractionalization, endogenously determine institutional quality, which in turn causally determines growth.

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