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Measuring Ethnic Diversity and Cohesion


Aims

Develop and estimate a multidimensional index of diversity that combines information on population shares of different ethnicities with information on income, education, employment and in general socio-economic outcomes. This information will take into account the distance among ethnic groups along several dimensions that may constitute relevant cleavages for social cohesion and conflict.

 

Dondena activities

Modelling and empirical research

 

Dondena researchers

Eliana La Ferrara

Conchita DAmbrosio

 

Partners

Walter Bossert, Professor, Département de sciences économiques, Université de Montréal

 

Funding

Funded by the European Commission (6th Framework Programme, Contract no. CIT2-2004-506084).

Funding issued to the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER).

 

Duration

2005-2008