Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth

William Easterly (), Jozef Ritzan and Michael Woolcock ()

No 94, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

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

Keywords: Political institutions; social cohesion; poverty; economic policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H5 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-08
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