Value Diversity and Regional Economic Development

Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Klasing, Mariko J.; Milionis, Petros

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“…14 In addition to social capital, the analysis also considers the degree of ethnic heterogeneity by including an ethnic fractionalization index, as in Gennaioli et al (2013). This is motivated by the fact that higher diversity is generally associated with lower levels of economic development (Alesina & Zhuravskaya, 2011;Beugelsdijk, Klasing & Milionis, 2017 the legacy of history on current TFP differences, we consider each region's historical urban density in 1800 based on data from Bairoch, Batou, and Chevre (1988). We also consider for each region how many cities were historically located on the crossing of two or more Roman roads, which Bosker et al (2013) have shown to be correlated with historical development over the past two millennia.…”

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Regional economic development in Europe: the role of total factor productivity

2017

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Regional economic development in Europe: the role of total factor productivity. Regional Studies. This paper documents the fact that the large and persistent differences in economic development across subnational regions in European Union countries can largely be attributed to differences in total factor productivity (TFP). Applying the technique of development accounting, the paper decomposes differences in output per worker across 257 European Union regions into a component due to the local availability of production factors and a component due to TFP. As the analysis reveals, TFP differences are large even within countries, and are strongly related to economic geography and historical development paths. This suggests limited interregional diffusion of technology and of efficient production practices. L'aménagement du territoire en Europe: le rôle de la productivité globale des facteurs. Regional Studies. Cet article démontre que les importants écarts de développement économique qui persistent à travers les régions infranationales situées dans les pays-membres de l'Union européenne s'expliquent dans une large mesure par les écarts de productivité globales des facteurs (PGF). En appliquant la méthode de la comptabilité de développement (development accounting), on décompose les écarts de rendement par travailleur selon 257 régions de l'Union européenne en une composante relative à la disponibilité locale des facteurs de production et une deuxième composante qui s'explique par la PGF. Comme laisse voir l'analyse, les écarts de PGF s'avèrent importants même au sein des pays, et se rapportent étroitement à la géographie économique et aux sentiers de développement historiques. Cela laisse supposer une diffusion interrégionale limitée de la technologie et des procédés de production efficaces. MOTS-CLÉSaménagement du territoire; productivité globale des facteurs; comptabilité de développement; régions européennes

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2017

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“…Algan et al (2016) exploit the rules of public housing allocation in France to establish that ethnic diversity measured at the apartment block level induces "social anomie" leading to increased vandalism and lower levels of building maintenance. Beugelsdijk et al (2018) establish that greater diversity of cultural values is negatively associated with economic performance and local public goods provision in a sample of European regions.…”

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Subnational diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a new dataset

Gershman

Rivera

2018

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This paper presents a new dataset on subnational ethnolinguistic and religious diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa covering 36 countries and almost 400 first-level administrative units. We use population censuses and large-scale household surveys to compile detailed data on the ethnolinguistic composition of each region and match all reported ethnicities to Ethnologue, a comprehensive catalog of world languages. This matching allows us to standardize the notion of an ethnolinguistic group and account for relatedness between language pairs, a correlate of shared history and culture, when calculating diversity indices. Exploiting within-country variation provided by our new dataset, we find that local public goods provision, as reflected in metrics of education, health, and electricity access, is negatively related to ethnolinguistic diversity, but only if the underlying basic languages are first aggregated into larger families or if linguistic distances between groups are taken into consideration. In other words, only deeprooted diversity, based on cleavages formed in the distant past, is strongly inversely associated with a range of regional development indicators. Furthermore, we show that subnational diversity has been remarkably persistent over the past two-three decades implying that population sorting in the short to medium run is unlikely to bias our main findings.

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“…This is something that is difficult to understand, especially as the quality of data on values and social capital has kept on improving in recent decades. The few exceptions in this respect (e.g., Beugelsdijk & Klasing, 2016; Beugelsdijk, Klasing, & Milionis, 2019; Cortinovis, Xiao, Boschma, & van Oort, 2017) provide interesting insights, but still fall far short of the attention that the role of informal institutions for economic development deserves.…”

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Institutions and the fortunes of territories

Rodríguez‐Pose

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At the same time, the dominant development policies are proving less than capable of providing answers to these challenges. Strategies based on a mix of physical and human capital and technology have not succeeded in dealing with growing territorial inequality and its treacherous economic, social and political consequences. There is thus an urgent need to understand why territorial divergence occurs and why there is what seems to be a growing decline in the returns of public intervention targeting economic development. In the search for answers, scholars have turned to the examination of institutions. But despite progress in our grasp of how institutions affect development, crucial knowledge gaps remain. This paper reviews recent progress in our understanding of the role of institutions for development, unveils the most important gaps, and proposes a series of avenues to improve how a better understanding of how institutions shape regional and urban development can lead to more efficient development policies.

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Value Diversity and Regional Economic Development

Cited by 31 publications

References 87 publications

Regional economic development in Europe: the role of total factor productivity

Regional economic development in Europe: the role of total factor productivity

Subnational diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a new dataset

Institutions and the fortunes of territories

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