The authors present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. Results show that the shares of spending on productive public goods - education, roads, sewers, and trash pickup _ in U.S. cities (metro areas/urban counties) are inversely related to the city's (metro area's/county's) ethnic fragmentation, even after controlling for other socioeconomic and demographic...
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تفاصيل
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1999/5/31
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS2108
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1
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2010/7/01
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Public goods and ethnic divisions
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public good
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نسخة رسمية من الوثيقة (قد تضم توقيعات، الخ)
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