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Blood is thicker than tarmac
There’s an interesting NBER working paper this week called “The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya.” The authors find that regions that share the same ethnicity as the president...
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Borders, Ethnicity and Trade
My stack of reading material is increasing daily. The latest addition is called “Borders, Ethnicity and Trade” and it is forthcoming in the JDE (click here for an earlier, ungated version). The paper...
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Ethnicity, institutions & governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannouby have a great new working paper called “On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization.” The authors make...
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