Culture, contiguity and conflict: On the measurement of ethnolinguistic effects in spatial spillovers

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 436-454

  de Groot, Olaf J ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE; HETEROGENEITY; INDEX METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STATE ROLE;

AFRICA;

EID: 79953718361     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220381003599386     Document Type: Article

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