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Title: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Tribal Nations
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Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: Research suggests that increases in a nation’s ethnic polarization will diminish its prospects for inclusive economic growth. We study the extent to which this depends on i) whether citizenship rules are based on ethnic versus civic criterion, and ii) a nation’s economic reliance on government enterprise. We do so using a novel empirical setting, comparing the growth-inequality relationships on Native American reservations (sometimes called Tribal Nations) from 1945 to 2010. We find that ethnically homogenous reservations have had relatively inclusive growth whereas ethnically polarized reservations have followed the same trend of exclusive growth – i.e., rising inequality - found elsewhere in the United States. The effect of polarization appears to be driven by uneven distribution of returns from collective tribal enterprise (e.g., casino gaming) along ethnic divisions. The findings suggest that government enterprise and ethnic nationalism are barriers to inclusive growth in ethnically polarized societies.
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Authors: Frye, Dustin; Mollica, Andrew; Parker, Dominic, P.
Publisher: Vassar College
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Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity
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