ETHNICGOODS is a five-year research project funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. It is hosted by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and led by Dr Matthias vom Hau.
Our goal is to challenge the notion that ethnic diversity dampens public goods such as healthcare or education. We conceive the relationship between these factors as spurious and consider instead the role of the formation of modern nation-states in shaping them. Based on this historical perspective, we will provide new evidence around the developmental consequences of ethnic heterogeneity.
ETHNICGOODS is a five-year research project funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant. Our goal is to challenge the notion that ethnic heterogenicity dampens public assets. ETHNICGOODS envisions that the relationship between these factors as spurious and considers instead the role of modern nation-state formation.
Our project is hosted by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and led by Dr Matthias vom Hau. He will lead our research based on the historical construction of diversity to provide new evidence around the developmental consequences of ethnic heterogeneity.
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What’s new?
Vacancies: Reseach Assistant Positions
The Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) invites applications for Research Assistant positions to work in the research project “States, Nationalism, [...]
New Publication on wars, nationalism, and identities by Emre Amasyali
ETHNICGOODS Postdoctoral Researcher Emre Amasyali and his co-author John A. Hall from McGill University, Canada, have just published a [...]
New Interview: meet Juliette Crespin-Boucaud, ETHNICGOODS Postdoctoral Fellow
In the final issue of our series of interviews to ETHNICGOODS’ Postdoctoral Researchers we interview Juliette Crespin-Boucaud. Juliette joined the [...]
New interview: meet Emre Amasyali, ETHNICGOODS Postdoctoral Fellow
The second in our series of interviews introduces us to Emre Amasyali, one of ETHNICGOODS’ Postdoctoral Fellows. Welcome to Barcelona, [...]
ETHNICGOODS-IBEI research seminar coming soon
On March 28 a new seminar co-organized by ETHNICGOODS and IBEI will take place. On this occasion, Harris Mylonas will [...]
Interview with Chun-Ying Wu, ETHNICGOODS Postdoctoral Fellow
Chun-Ying Wu joined ETHNICGOODS in November 2021. In the first in a series of interviews to the members of the [...]
What’s new?
ETHNICGOODS-IBEI Research Seminar coming soon
Under the framework of the new Research Seminar Series co-organised [...]
