Diploma Thesis Abstract JEL Classification Z13, O12, O13, Z91 Keywords income shock, endogeneity, ethnicity, instrumental variables Title Income Shocks and Ethnic Group Bias Author's e-mail 61618416@fsv.cuni.cz Supervisor's e-mail bauerm@fsv.cuni.cz Abstract The thesis explores how individual income shocks impact ethnic group bias using a survey dataset from Uganda and meteorological data. Previous research has shown that the majority of civil conflicts break down along ethnic lines, and that ethnic tribalism harms economic performance of countries. A better understanding of the causal mechanism behind ethnic bias could help alleviate both of those problems. The author finds that income shocks have no measurable effect on ethnic out-group bias, but they might influence ethnic in-group bias. Since the regression of ethnic bias variables on income proxies likely suffers from endogeneity, the author employs the copula endogeneity correction model, which, however, does not prove to perform well with a binary dependent variable. In addition, the author demonstrates that ethnic group bias is most likely not directly influenced by variations in rainfall and that instrumenting for income with rainfall variation leads to non- robust results with even a small violations of model assumptions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:398165 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Hruban, Jiří |
| Contributors | Bauer, Michal, Horváth, Roman |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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