Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital in Indonesia

Dimitris Mavridis

PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL

Abstract: This paper uses the variations of ethnic diversity between districts in Indonesia to show that diversity leads to lower social capital outcomes. I find that distinguishing between ethnic polarization and fractionalization matters for the results, as polarization has a larger negative effect. The results cannot entirely be attributed to selection on unobservables, and at least part of the relationship should be interpreted as causal. Finally, diversity seems to increase tolerance, despite its negative effect on other social capital variables such as trust, perceived safety, and participation to community activities, and voting in elections.

Keywords: ethnic diversity; trust; social capital; subjective well-being; Asia; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Published in World Development, 2015, 67, pp.376-395. ⟨10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.028⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital in Indonesia (2015)
Working Paper: Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital in Indonesia (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-01511009

DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.028

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Caroline Bauer ().