This paper analyzes the role that different dimensions of ethnicity plays in the process of
growth of a country. We cover essentially four issues. First, and in contrast with the ethnic …

This paper analyzes the role that different indices and dimensions of ethnicity play in the
process of economic development. Firstly, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of …

This paper analyzes the effect of religious diversity on economic development. We argue
that the religious polarization index is more appropriate to measure the effect of potential …

In this article, we examine empirically both the direct and indirect links between ethnic
fragmentation and economic growth. We find that both ethnic fractionalization and …

We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization for about 190
countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the …

Objective This article investigates the impact of increasing global integration on economic
growth, emphasizing its interaction with the level of ethnic heterogeneity in a society …

Religion is a popular topic to be considered as one of the major factors that affect people's
lifestyles. However, religion is one of the social factors that most economists are very careful …

This paper questions the line of reasoning followed by several authors, notably Easterly and
Levine according to which ethno‐linguistic fragmentation, because it leads to poor policies …

In most studies of the impact of ethnic diversity on economic growth, diversity is
hypothesized to affect growth through its effect on macroeconomic policies. This article …

This paper has the aim of contributing to the existing research by analysing two particular
topics. First of all, we show that the model specifications by Alesina et al.(J Econ Growth 8 …