TY - JOUR
T1 - Does ethnic diversity affect public goods provision? Evidence from boundary reform of local governments
AU - Miyazaki, Takeshi
N1 - Funding Information:
I greatly appreciate Simon Lapointe, Xiang Ma, Maria Metzing, Masaaki Suzuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Fan Wang, Geoff Whyte, and participants in the seminars at Doshisha University and VATT and in the 2017 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society and the 73rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance for their helpful and insightful comments. This study was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (Grant Numbers 16K13370; Grant Numbers 19K01697).
Funding Information:
The work was supported by the JSPS [16K13370,19K01697]. I greatly appreciate Simon Lapointe, Xiang Ma, Maria Metzing, Masaaki Suzuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Fan Wang, Geoff Whyte, and participants in the seminars at Doshisha University and VATT and in the 2017 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society and the 73rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance for their helpful and insightful comments. This study was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (Grant Numbers 16K13370; Grant Numbers 19K01697).
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This study explores how ethnic fractionalization affects the provision of public goods using Japanese city data, and attempts to address potential endogeneity by using boundary reforms of local governments. The results show that an increase in ethnic fractionalization has a significantly negative effect on spending on productive public goods (roads and bridges) and positive effects on spending on nonproductive public goods (sanitation and trash collection). However, ethnic fractionalization is unrelated to the provision of other local public goods such as education and welfare.
AB - This study explores how ethnic fractionalization affects the provision of public goods using Japanese city data, and attempts to address potential endogeneity by using boundary reforms of local governments. The results show that an increase in ethnic fractionalization has a significantly negative effect on spending on productive public goods (roads and bridges) and positive effects on spending on nonproductive public goods (sanitation and trash collection). However, ethnic fractionalization is unrelated to the provision of other local public goods such as education and welfare.
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U2 - 10.1080/00036846.2021.2017401
DO - 10.1080/00036846.2021.2017401
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122371796
VL - 54
SP - 3903
EP - 3923
JO - Applied Economics
JF - Applied Economics
SN - 0003-6846
IS - 34
ER -