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4 - Cross-National Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Elliott D. Green
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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In this chapter I examine the statistical effect of industrialization on ethnic change. I first take Soviet-era cross-national data measuring ethnic diversity by country in 1961 and 1985 and regress the change in ethnic diversity across these twenty-four years on change in carbon emissions per capita over the same time period. The results demonstrate a strong relationship between decreasing ethnic diversity and increasing levels of industrialization, a result which is robust to the inclusion of several control variables and the use of various sub-samples, as well as alternative measures of industrialization such as cement production and urbanization. I also show that carbon emissions are robustly correlated with change in the percentage identifying with the largest ethnic group per state. I then use an alternative original dataset consisting of individual country censuses between 1960 and 2019, and show that the same effect holds, both as regards the effect of carbon emissions on ethnic fractionalization as well as robustness checks and multiple alternative measures such as electricity consumption and the share of labour in both agriculture and industry.

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Industrialization and Assimilation
Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World
, pp. 66 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Cross-National Evidence
  • Elliott D. Green, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Industrialization and Assimilation
  • Online publication: 18 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268356.004
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  • Cross-National Evidence
  • Elliott D. Green, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Industrialization and Assimilation
  • Online publication: 18 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268356.004
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  • Cross-National Evidence
  • Elliott D. Green, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Industrialization and Assimilation
  • Online publication: 18 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268356.004
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