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SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH
Author(s) -
EASTERLY WILLIAM,
RITZEN JOZEF,
WOOLCOCK MICHAEL
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
economics and politics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-0343
pISSN - 0954-1985
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2006.00165.x
Subject(s) - cohesion (chemistry) , sociology , chemistry , organic chemistry
We present evidence that measures of “social cohesion,” such as income inequality and ethnic fractionalization, endogenously determine institutional quality, which in turn causally determines growth.