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JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Volume 124, Issue 2, Pages 428-488Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/685300
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- London Business School Research and Materials Development Fund grant
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/L011719/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/L011719/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity inequality for a large sample of countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the homelands of ethnolinguistic groups, we construct measures of ethnic inequality. Second, we uncover a strong inverse association between ethnic inequality and contemporary development above and beyond its relationship with cross-region and cross-administrative unit inequality. Third, we establish that differences in geographic endowments across ethnic homelands explain a sizable fraction of the variation in economic disparities across groups. Fourth, we show that inequality in geographic endowments across ethnic homelands is a negative correlate of development.
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