The lack of a shared national identity is often blamed for ethnic conflict and low economic development. This raises the question: does society’s modernization (in particular, industrialization) lead to identity, thereby bringing good outcomes in development? paper theoretically examines question using contest model augmented with multiple production sectors social identification. analysis show...

Abstract This paper highlights the fact that different distributional aspects of ethnicity matter for conflict. We axiomatically derive a parametric class indices conflict potential obtained as sum each ethnic group’s relative power weighted by probability across group interactions. The component an extreme element this is given Penrose–Banzhaf measure power. index combines in non-linear way fr...

There is growing evidence that ethnic divisions and conflict experience affect social capital economic interactions, in both positive negative ways. However, recent work has suggested the of electoral violence Kenya does not correlate with laboratory behavior between two largest groups, Luo Kikuyu. We conduct a similar set experiments measuring find same results: altruism, trusting trustworthy ...

This paper seeks to understand first how social connections have evolved in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a postconflict successor state, over the last two decades and second whether social connections may play a role in attenuating separatist and self-exclusionary beliefs, using a dataset collected just before the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. In post-conflict societies, low levels of social in...