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Artificial States
Alberto F. Alesina Harvard University - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) William Easterly New York University - Stern School of Business, Department of Economics Janina Matuszeski Harvard University - Faculty of Arts and Sciences March 2006 Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2115 Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 100 Abstract: Artifical states are those in which political borders do not coincide with a division of nationalities desired by the people on the ground. We propose and compute for all countries in the world two new measures of the degree to which states are artificial. One is based on measuring how borders split ethnic groups into two separate adjacent countries. The other measures how straight land borders are, under the assumption the straight land borders are more likely to be artificial. We then show that these two measures seem to be highly correlated with several measures of political and economic success. Working Paper Series Date posted: March 22, 2006 ; Last revised: August 06, 2007Suggested CitationContact Information
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