The Causal Effect of Ethnoracial Demography on Public Goods Provision

• In Event: Historical legacy of discrimination on outcomes in minority politics today

Brief Overview

Racial demography effects stem from compositional characteristics of local populations. Results also indicate that suboptimal outcomes are less a product of adverse intergroup relations than of path-dependent processes of state development.

Authors

• Giuliana Pardelli, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Alexander Kustov, Princeton University