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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Alesina, Alberto |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Public goods and ethnic divisions |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1999 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.1243-284 |
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| Dates of publication and/or sequential designation |
Nov |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related data sets: U.S. cities, U.S. metropolitan areas, and U.S. urban counties. 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 determinants. We conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances. - Reproduced |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Public goods - United States |
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Public utilities - United States |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Public utilities |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Easterly, William |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Baqir, Reza |
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Quarterly Journal of Economics |
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