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  1. Mary Austin and the American West
    Author: Goodman, Susan; Dawson, Carl
    Published: [2009]; ©2008
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her... more

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    Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness

     
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  2. The causal effect of ethnic diversity on support for redistribution and the role of discrimination
    Author: Achard, Pascal; Suetens, Sigrid
    Published: 12 June 2023
    Publisher:  CentER, Tilburg University, [Tilburg]

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    Series: Discussion paper / CentER ; no. 2023, 013
    Subjects: redistribution; ethnic diversity; political preferences; immigration; discrimination; prejudice
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  3. Ethnic diversity and firm performance
    evidence from India
    Author: Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Madhoo, Yeti Nisha; Nath, Shyam
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  [Australia South Asia Research Centre], [Canberra]

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    Series: ASARC working paper ; 2022, 01
    Subjects: ethnic diversity; fractionalization; polarization; firm performance; minorities; India
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  4. Ethnic diversity and financial inclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
    Author: Koomson, Isaac; Danquah, Michael; Martey, Edward
    Published: October 2023
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    The ethnic diversity-financial inclusion nexus remains one of the least explored topics in the literature despite global attempts to promote cultural mixing due to its socioeconomic benefits. We contribute to the literature by examining the link... more

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    The ethnic diversity-financial inclusion nexus remains one of the least explored topics in the literature despite global attempts to promote cultural mixing due to its socioeconomic benefits. We contribute to the literature by examining the link between ethnic diversity and financial inclusion using five-wave panel data from South Africa, a country noted for its diverse ethnic groups with unique knowledge stock. We measure financial inclusion using a multidimensional construct, while ethnic diversity is conceptualized using fractionalization and polarization indexes. After addressing endogeneity using various quasi-experimental techniques, we find that ethnic diversity increases financial inclusion, with men and urban residents experiencing higher beneficial impacts of ethnic diversity. Further analysis reveals that increased employment opportunities and social group membership serve as potential pathways via which ethnic diversity increases financial inclusion. Carefully designed policies aimed at promoting ethnic diversity will go a long way to boosting financial inclusion.

     
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    ISBN: 9789292674274
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    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2023, 119
    Subjects: ethnic diversity; financial inclusion; employment; social groups; South Africa
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  5. Local exposure to toxic releases
    does ethnic diversity matter?
    Author: Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J. R.; Khemmarat, Khemrutai
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Dep. of Economics, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham

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    Series: Department of Economics discussion paper / Department of Economics, The University of Birmingham ; 10-29
    Subjects: Pollution; ethnic diversity; fractionalization; polarization; community characteristics; environmental justice
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  6. Ethnic diversity makes me sick!
    an examination of ethnic diversity’s effect on health outcomes
    Author: Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Ocloo, Janet Exornam; Siawor-Robertson, Diana
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Monash Univ., Dep. of Economics, Canberra

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    Series: Discussion paper / Monash University,Department of Economics ; 15,41
    Subjects: health; ethnic diversity; linguistic diversity; fractionalization
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  7. Brief cooperative contact with ethnic minorities reduces discrimination
    Author: Freddi, Eleonora; Potters, Jan; Suetens, Sigrid
    Published: 09 March 2022
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Series: Array ; DP17098
    Subjects: ethnic discrimination; cooperative contact; prejudice; ethnic diversity; natural fieldexperiment; behavioral games
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  8. Ethnic inequality, the federal character principle, and the reform of Nigeria's presidential federalism
    Author: Suberu, Rotimi T.
    Published: October 2022
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    The federal character principle is Nigeria's primary formula for mitigating horizontal inequality and conflict in this chronically fractured society. Designed to guarantee inter-group inclusion in the conduct and composition of governmental... more

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    The federal character principle is Nigeria's primary formula for mitigating horizontal inequality and conflict in this chronically fractured society. Designed to guarantee inter-group inclusion in the conduct and composition of governmental institutions, the principle spans direct, integrative, and indirect policies for reducing horizontal inequalities, which overlap with consociational, centripetal, and power-dividing paradigms of ethnic conflict management. Celebrated by its champions as an ingenious approach to the management of ethnic diversity and disparity, the federal character principle has been denounced by its opponents for politicizing and valorizing sectional divisions, fostering dysfunctional and corrupt governance, and failing to effectively address structural ethnic imbalances and historical inter-group grievances. This paper offers a new narrative that transcends narrowly framed critiques of the problematic conceptualization, flawed implementation, and meagre impact of the federal character principle by underscoring the innovative design of the principle of federal character as a mechanism of ethnic consociation and integration, while highlighting the indirect variables-including profound institutional deficits in governmental accountability-that have undermined the principle's implementation and efficacy in practice.

     
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    ISBN: 9789292672478
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    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2022, 113
    Subjects: federal character principle; horizontal inequality; North-South conflicts; ethnic diversity; integration; consociation; power-dividing
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  9. Does ethnic diversity in schools affect occupational choices?
    Author: Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
    Published: December 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect occupational choice. Using longitudinal administrative data and leveraging variation in ethnic composition across cohorts within... more

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    We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect occupational choice. Using longitudinal administrative data and leveraging variation in ethnic composition across cohorts within schools, we find evidence for two opposing effects. Ethnic fractionalization increases the likelihood of students sorting into people-oriented occupations while ethnic polarization reduces this likelihood. Using data on social and cognitive skills, we provide evidence that exposure to higher levels of ethnic fractionalization enhances the students' formation of social skills and increases the likelihood of students sorting into people-oriented occupations where the returns to these skills are higher.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15780
    Subjects: ethnic diversity; fractionalization; polarization; school; occupational choice
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  10. Does ethnic diversity in schools affect occupational choices?
    Author: Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
    Published: December 2022
    Publisher:  Universität Zürich, IBW - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Zürich

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    Series: Working paper / Swiss Leading House ; no. 201
    Subjects: ethnic diversity; fractionalization; polarization; school; occupational choice
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  11. Democratisation under diversity: theory and evidence from Indonesian communities
    Author: Mitra, Anirban; Pal, Sarmistha
    Published: January 2021
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions are salient. Specifically, the latter affects coordination costs and thereby cooperative behaviour across the... more

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    We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions are salient. Specifically, the latter affects coordination costs and thereby cooperative behaviour across the constituent ethnic groups. Our theory highlights the role of the local elite in lobbying for policies which favour them in a decentralised setting. The differences in preferences over public good allocations along with the salience of coordination costs across ethnic groups are relevant in determining the equilibrium lobbying behaviour. This results in ethnic diversity having a detrimental effect on local developmental spending which is aggravated by increased levels of coordination costs. We test these predictions using Indonesian community-level data. Utilising the 1997 and 2007 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) rounds, we are able to construct various measures of ethnic diversity. We exploit an institutional feature of Indonesian communities - namely, the observance of traditional "Adat" laws to proxy coordination costs across ethnic groups. Overall, we find that ethnic diversity depresses local development spending post-decentralisation at the community level particularly where Adat laws (which promote an ethic of mutual co-operation) are not followed. The opposite obtains for spending on non-developmental items, all of which is consistent with our theory.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14073
    Subjects: decentralisation; ethnic diversity; lobbying; local development; political economy
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  12. The relationship between social capital and migrant integration, ethnic diversity, and spatial sorting
    Author: Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques
    Published: May 2024
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    In this paper, we present evidence from quantitative research over the last decade on how the social capital of individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the effects... more

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    In this paper, we present evidence from quantitative research over the last decade on how the social capital of individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the effects of spatial sorting and ethnic diversity on social capital formation. Aotearoa New Zealand has one of the highest rates of immigration in the OECD and, consequently, one of the highest shares of foreign-born individuals in the population. Additionally, the population is characterized by high ethnic diversity and a large indigenous population, with Māori representing 17 percent of the population. Using several data sources, we measure social capital by focusing on participation and volunteering in a range of community activities, perceptions of safety and inclusion, and voting in elections. Regression modelling shows that, as expected, migrants have little local social capital upon arrival. However, differences between their social capital and that of native-born individuals reduce considerably as the duration of residence in Aotearoa New Zealand increases. When the migrant share in a region is larger than the national average, migrants invest less in bridging social capital. Migrant clustering within a region increases their investment in bonding social capital. Bridging activities are associated with better employment outcomes. Less than one in five respondents in the utilized survey data report discrimination, and for migrants, discrimination declines with years of residence. However, the trend in discrimination has been upward over time and particularly affects non-European migrants and persons identifying with Māori and Pacific Peoples ethnicities. Residential location matters. Greater ethnic diversity is associated with the perception of a less safe neighbourhood, but individuals in ethnically diverse regions experience relatively less discrimination. Additionally, there is more involvement in elections in such regions. In contrast, greater ethnic polarisation in regions is associated with less civic engagement and more discrimination.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 17012
    Subjects: social capital; ethnic diversity; bonding; bridging; linking; immigrant integration; spatial sorting
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