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Title: Public goods and ethnic diversity: e vidence from d eforestation in Indonesia
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: We show that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively correlated with the degree of ethnic fractionalization of the communities. We explore several channels that may link the two variables. They include the negative effect of ethnic fractionalization on the ability to coordinate and organize resistance against logging companies and a higher level of corruption of politicians less controlled in more fragmented communities.
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Authors: Alesina, Alberto; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania
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Publication Number: 188
Institution: Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
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Publisher Location: Leeds, UK
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Natural Resource Management, Other, Race and Ethnicity
Countries: Indonesia