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100	1		_aAlesina, Alberto.
245	1	0	_aNation-Building and Education / _cAlberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano. Bryony Reich.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w18839
500			_aFebruary 2013.
520	3		_aNations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences and can communicate with each other. Democracies and dictatorships have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population, i.e. "to build a nation". We study and compare nation-building policies under the transition from dictatorship to democracy in a model where the location and type of government and the borders of the country are endogenous. We find that the threat of democratization provides the strongest incentive to homogenize. We focus upon a specific nation-building policy: the provision of mass primary education. As a motivation, we offer historical discussions of several episodes in the nineteenth century and suggestive correlations for a large sample of countries over the 1925-2014 period.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aF3 - International Finance _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aGiuliano, Paola. _927109
700	1		_aReich, Bryony.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w18839.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w18839
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18839
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