| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11351 |
| DP11351 Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics? | |
| Roland Hodler; Giacomo De Luca; Paul Raschky | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-06-24 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We are the first to study ethnic favoritism in a global sample and to use a broad measure – nighttime light intensity -- that allows capturing the distributive effects of a wide range of policies. We construct two panel datasets with several thousand ethnographic regions from around 140 multi-ethnic countries and annual observations from 1992 to 2013. We find robust evidence for ethnic favoritism: ethnographic regions enjoy 7%-10% more intense nighttime light and 2%-3% higher GDP when being the current political leader’s ethnic homeland. We further document that ethnic favoritism is a global phenomenon prevalent both within and outside of Africa; that economic development and better political institutions have at best weak effects on ethnic favoritism; that ethnic favoritism is partly motivated by electoral concerns and extends to linguistically close groups; and that ethnic favoritism does not contribute to sustainable development. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Ethnic favoritism Political leaders Institutions Elections |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11351 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540167 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roland Hodler,Giacomo De Luca,Paul Raschky. DP11351 Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics?. 2016. |
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