Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Development Studies

Abstract

We present a comprehensive multi-scale test of the diversity-deficit hypothesis that posits a negative association between diversity and development. We develop a 'scale-flip hypothesis' that formalises how the political salience of diversity is contingent on the level of analysis. We also contribute to the political economy of public goods literature using the largest dataset used to date-n ≈ 1.2 million village-year points from a two-period panel of all villages in the Indian national census data. We find evidence for 'scale-flip' so that there is a robust positive association between diversity and public goods at the local level. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Publication Date

26-8-2020

Publisher

Routledge

Volume

Vol.57

Issue

Iss.4

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