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Does ethnic diversity decrease economic interactions? Evidence from exchange networks in rural Gambia

Published in Economics of Transition and Institutional Change • Feb 1, 2019
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Authors:
Jean‐Louis Arcand
,
Dany Jaimovich

Abstract

Abstract Using a unique dataset collected in 59 rural Gambian villages, we study how ethnic heterogeneity is related to the structure of four economic exchange networks: land, labour, inputs and credit. We find that different measures of village‐level ethnic fragmentation are mostly uncorrelated wit...

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