Browsing by Author "La Ferrara, Eliana"

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    • Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance 

      Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana (American Economic Association, 2005)
      We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on communities of different size and organizational structure, such as countries, ...

    • Participation in Heterogeneous Communities 

      Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana (MIT Press, 2000)
      This paper studies what determines group formation and the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are especially interested in whether and how much ...

    • Political Competition in Weak States 

      La Ferrara, Eliana; Bates, Robert (Blackwell Publishing, 2001)
      In the developing areas, politics is often undemocratic, states lack a monopoly over violence, and politicians play upon cultural identities. To analyze politics in such settings, we develop a model in which politicians ...

    • Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities 

      Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana (Elsevier, 2005)
      This paper explores how individual preferences for redistribution depend on future income prospects. In addition to estimating the impact of individuals' socioeconomic background and of their subjective perceptions of ...

    • A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing 

      Alesina, Alberto Francesco; La Ferrara, Eliana (American Economic Association, 2014)
      We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the United States and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We model the courts as minimizing type I and II errors. If trial courts ...