Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance
- 1 December 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on countries, on cities in developed countries (the U.S.) and on villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open issues in need of further research.Keywords
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