TY  - JOUR
AU  - Alesina,Alberto
AU  - Devleeschauwer,Arnaud
AU  - Easterly,William
AU  - Kurlat,Sergio
AU  - Wacziarg,Romain
TI  - Fractionalization
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9411
PY  - 2003
Y2  - January 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9411
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9411.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alberto F. Alesina
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center 210
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-8388
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: aalesina@harvard.edu

Arnaud Devleeschauwer
Dept. of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-Mail: devleesc@fas.harvard.edu

William Easterly
New York University
Department of Economics
19 W. 4th Street, 6th floor
New York NY 10012
Tel: 212/992-8684
Fax: 212/995-4186
E-Mail: william.easterly@nyu.edu

Romain Wacziarg
Anderson School of Management at UCLA
C-510 Entrepreneurs Hall
110 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481
Tel: 310 825 4507
E-Mail: wacziarg@ucla.edu
AB  - 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 literature and we compare our new variables with those previously used. We also revisit the question of the effects of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization on quality of institutions and growth. We partly confirm and partly modify previous results. The patterns of cross-correlations between potential explanatory variables and their different degree of endogeneity makes it hard to make unqualified statements about competing explanations for economic growth and the quality of government.
ER  -