Diversity, Institutions, and Economic Outcomes
Post-WWII Displacement in Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3391977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Volha Charnysh (0000-0002-5089-3818, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 423-441 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055419000042 |
| OpenAlex | W2918718035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 59 |
How does an increase in cultural diversity affect state-society interactions? Do institutional differences between heterogeneous and homogeneous communities influence economic activity? I argue that heterogeneity not only impedes informal cooperation but also increases demand for third-party enforcement provided by the state. Over time, the greater willingness of heterogeneous communities to engage with state institutions facilitates the accumulation of state capacity and, in common-interest states, promotes private economic activity. I test this argument using original data on post-WWII population transfers in Poland. I find that homogeneous migrant communities were initially more successful in providing local public goods through informal enforcement, while heterogeneous migrant communities relied on the state for the provision of public goods. Economically similar during state socialism, heterogeneous communities collected higher tax revenues and registered higher incomes and entrepreneurship rates following the transition to the market. These findings challenge the predominant view of diversity as harmful to economic development
Argument (complex analysis · Diversity (politics · Economics · Enforcement · Homogeneous · Political economy · Political science · Population · Public good · Revenue · Sociology · State (computer science · Corruption and Economic Development · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Social Capital and Networks
Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Heterogeneity and Preferences for Public Goods and Redistribution in Latin America
Response to Jewell, Evan. (Re)moving the Masses
The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia
New Russian Economic History
Appeal to a higher power
Beyond body counts
Status inequality and public goods
Decentralization, historical state capacity and public goods provision in Post-Soviet Russia
The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration
Migration and Social Change
The effects of negative and positive information on attitudes towards immigration
Replacement migration on the edge of the European Union
State-Building, Collective Efficacy, and the Co-Production of Public Goods in Rural Africa
Imperial Rule and Long-Run Development
Political Control
When Coethnicity Fails
Authoritarian Infiltration of Organizations
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics
The Political Legacy of Forced Migration
Endogenous State Capacity
Historical Persistence
How War Changes Land
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies
Testing the Benefits of Public Deliberation
The Role of Communities in the Transmission of Political Values
Community Size and Electoral Preferences
Refugee Networks, Cooperation, and Resource Access
Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality
From Recognition to Integration
Ethnoreligious diversity and state-building
History, Social Divisions, and Public Goods in Rural India
The clan and the corporation
Ethnic diversity, social sanctions, and public goods in Kenya
The “Out of Africa” Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance
Covariate balancing propensity score for a continuous treatment
Institutions
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Roots of Autocracy
Segregation and Mistrust
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy
Forced Migration and Human Capital
Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Internal Borders
Migration, Diversity, and Economic Growth
The Grecian horse
Does immigration impact institutions
The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943-1948
The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants
Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration
Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Accounting for Spatial Autocorrelation in Linear Regression Models Using Spatial Filtering with Eigenvectors
Tribe or Nation? Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania
Tribe or Nation
Legibility and the Informational Foundations of State Capacity
Intergroup Behavioral Strategies as Contextually Determined
E Pluribus Unum
Tribal Mobilization, Fragmented Groups, and Public Goods Provision in Jordan
Ethnicity in Time
Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality
Is Diversity Detrimental? Ethnic Fractionalization, Public Goods Provision, and the Historical Legacies of Stateness
Ethnic Diversity, Segregation and Ethnocentric Trust in Africa
The Origins of Voluntary Compliance
Rebuilding Poland
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
Economic versus Cultural Differences
Explaining Causal Findings Without Bias
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
The Death Camp Eldorado
The Political Salience of Cultural Difference
Demand for Law and the Security of Property Rights
Ethnic Segregation and Public Goods
Politics of Revenue Extraction in Post-Communist States
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |