SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH

William Easterly, Jozef Ritzen and Michael Woolcock

Economics and Politics, 2006, vol. 18, issue 2, 103-120

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2006
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