https://www.ojs.jcr-econ.org/index.php/jcre <p>The <strong>Journal of Comments and Replication in Economics (JCRE)</strong> replaces the previous <a href="https://www.iree.eu/">International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics (IREE)</a>. JCRE remains the premier journal for publishing replication studies and also publishes commentaries on original studies in Economics. </p> <p>For more detailed information on JCRE, visit our <a href="https://www.jcr-econ.org/">journal website</a>.</p> ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics en-US Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics 2749-988X https://www.ojs.jcr-econ.org/index.php/jcre/article/view/22 <p>A <span dir="ltr" role="presentation"> recent and well known paper, Bove and Elia (2017), argues that migrants’&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">diversity, as captured by the indexes of both fractionalization and polarization,&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">exerts a posive effect on GDP growth.</span> <span dir="ltr" role="presentation">In fact, by using the same datasset&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">and methodology, we show that the impact of diversity cannot be distinguished&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">from that of migration itself, due to the very high correlation among the corre</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">sponding variables. Also, if one disentangles migration from diversity, following&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">Alesina et al. (2016), only migration maintains a positive impact on growth&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">while diversity, as captured by fractionalization, turns out to be weakly and&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">positively associated to growth, but limitedly to the 1980-2010 time span. Po</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">larization, on the other hand, does not seem to exert any effect on growth. The&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">question as to whether diversity is more or less beneficial in terms of economic&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">growth remains therefore an intriguing one, and calls for more theoretical and&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">empirical analyses, possibly based on less (geographically) aggregated data.</span></p> Luigi Ventura Bianca Balsimelli Ghelli Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 2024-04-04 2024-04-04 3 3 1 18