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Title: Diversity and Social Fractionalization

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: The use of indices of diversity or variation has a long-standing tradition in ecology and biology, and is arguably a hallmark of modern statistics. In the last decade, however, a more general assessment and measurement of diversity has attracted a growing interest from other disciplines including economics and other social sciences. The motivations of such a remarkably increased focus on diversity measurement come from a wide variety of concerns, including those for biodiversity and the effectiveness of conservation policies, and for several instances of socioeconomic diversity both agreeable (e.g. diversity in juries and other representative bodies or undominated diversity in the allocation of resources (Van Parijs (1995)) and detrimental (e.g. severe inequalities of access to resources and opportunities).

Url: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290606318

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Authors: Ciommi, Mariateresa; Savaglio, Ernesto; Vannucci, Stefano

Publisher: Università Politecnica delle Marche

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