Metadata record for Replication data for: Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity
113042
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Replication data for: Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity
113042
http://doi.org/10.3886/E113042V1
Klaus Desmet
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Romain Wacziarg
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Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Desmet, Klaus, Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio, and Wacziarg, Romain. Replication data for: Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113042V1
D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
H41 Public Goods
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms, values, and attitudes. Using survey data for 76 countries, we find that ethnic identity is a significant predictor of cultural values, yet that within-group variation in culture trumps between-group variation. Thus, in contrast to a commonly held view, ethnic and cultural diversity are unrelated. Although only a small portion of a country's overall cultural heterogeneity occurs between groups, we find that various political economy outcomes (such as civil conflict and public goods provision) worsen when there is greater overlap between ethnicity and culture.