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Title: Measuring Ethnic Stratification and its Effect on Trust in Africa

Author(s): Roland Hodler, Sorawoot Srisuma, Alberto Vesperoni and Noemie Zurlinden

Publication Date: December 2018

Keyword(s): ethnic diversity, ethnic fractionalization, inequality and Trust

Programme Area(s): Development Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the hierarchy in socio-economic positions across the individuals of a society follows ethnolinguistic lines. This index generalizes the idea of between-group inequality to situations where data on economic and ethnolinguistic distances between pairs of individuals is available. We define an estimator of our index that takes the form of a second order U-statistic and has well-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and institutions at the local level in Africa.

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Hodler, R, Srisuma, S, Vesperoni, A and Zurlinden, N. 2018. 'Measuring Ethnic Stratification and its Effect on Trust in Africa'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13368