Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization

Joan Esteban () and Debraj Ray

American Economic Review, 2011, vol. 101, issue 4, 1345-74

Abstract: In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion as indicators for conflict. We show that a suitable monotone transform of the equilibrium level of conflict can be proxied by a linear function of the Gini coefficient, the Herfindahl-Hirschman fractionalization index, and a specific measure of polarization due to Esteban and Ray. (JEL D31, D63, D74)

Date: 2011
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