Representing ethnic groups in space: A new dataset

Weidmann, Nils B.; Rød, Jan Ketil; Cederman, Lars‐Erik

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“…Our units of observation are subnational ethnographic regions as given in the GREG dataset by Weidmann et al (2010). This dataset is based on the digitalization of the classical Soviet Atlas Narodov Mira.…”

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Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?

Luca

Hodler²,

Raschky

et al. 2018

Journal of Development Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime light intensity as output measure to capture the distributive effects of a wide range of policies. We find robust evidence for ethnic favoritism: the political leaders' ethnographic regions enjoy 10% higher nighttime light intensity. We further find that ethnic favoritism is a global rather than Sub-Saharan African phenomenon, which is present in poor as well as rich countries; that political institutions have a weak effect on ethnic favoritism; that ethnic favoritism is most prevalent in ethnically fractionalized and segregated countries with long established polities; and that ethnic favoritism does not contribute to sustainable development. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: D720, R110, J150, O430.

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Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?

Luca

Hodler²,

Raschky

et al. 2018

Journal of Development Economics

153

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“…We obtain the information on the location of ethnic group settlements from the "GeoReferencing of Ethnic Groups" (GREG) dataset (Weidmann et al, 2010). This dataset disaggregates ethnic groups spatially by representing their territories as polygon shapefile.…”

Section: Ethnic Datamentioning

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Re-Evaluating the Economic Costs of Conflicts

Fonseca

Baskaran

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. countries, we find that conflicts strongly reduce light output in settlements directly affected by fighting over the period 1992-2008. In addition, conflicts have large negative spillovers both across and within countries: light output in settlements not directly exposed to fighting declines significantly once a conflict begins; neighboring countries also experience large negative effects. The negative effects of conflicts are particularly pronounced in Eastern Europe, but also observable in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South and South-East Asia. In contrast, conflicts have, on average, no negative effects on light output in the Middle East and in the West. Terms of use: Documents inWe contrast these results with cross-country regressions with GDP data, which suggest much smaller negative effects of conflicts.

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“…These studies consider key factors such as geography, ethnicity and location, using new geographic information systems (GIS) resources and data (see Rustad et al, 2011;Weidmann, Rød, and Cederman 2010), as well automated event data (see Brandt, 2011). It is increasingly common to report ex post and ex ante predictions in conflict research (Schneider, Gleditsch and Carey, 2011).…”

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Will we see helping hands? Predicting civil war mediation and likely success

Clayton

Gleditsch

2013

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Abstract:We examine whether features highlighted as important for mediation in existing research allow us to predict when we will see mediation and likely success out-of-sample.We assess to what extent information about the characteristics of the conflicting dyads and conflict history can be evaluated ex ante and improve our ability to predict when conflicts will see mediation as well as when peaceful solutions are more likely to follow from mediation. We justify that the information used to generate predictions through the model can be assessed ex ante, using the ongoing conflict in Syria as an example. Our results suggest that a two stage model of mediation and success seems to do relatively well overall in predicting when mediation is likely to occur, but notably less well in predicting the outcome of mediation. This may reflect how ex ante observable structural characteristics are likely to influence willingness to mediate, while the outcome of mediation to a large extent will be influenced by unobservable characteristics or private information and how these are influenced by mediation. We discuss the usefulness of out-of-sample evaluation in studying conflict management and suggest future directions for improving our ability to forecast mediation.

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Representing ethnic groups in space: A new dataset

Cited by 223 publications

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Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?

Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?

Re-Evaluating the Economic Costs of Conflicts

Will we see helping hands? Predicting civil war mediation and likely success

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