Spatial Segregation, Multi-scale Diversity, and Public Goods

Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan, Sumit Mishra and Andaleeb Rahman

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Abstract: We develop a general multi-scale diversity framework to account for spatial segregation of ethnic groups in politically %and administratively nested geographic aggregations. Our framework explains why the celebrated ``diversity-debit hypothesis'' in political economy of public goods is sensitive to spatial unit of analysis, and how not accounting for segregation biases empirical diversity-development models. We test our framework using census data from Indian villages ($n \approx 600,000$) and sub-districts containing these villages ($n \approx 6,000$), for twenty-five different public goods.

Date: 2018-06-08
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