Revisiting the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply

• Author: Matz Dahlberg,Heléne Berg,Karin Edmark
• Date: 01 April 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12210
• Published date: 01 April 2017

Scand. J. of Economics 119(2), 288–294, 2017

DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12210

Revisiting the Relationship between Ethnic

Diversity and Preferences

for Redistribution: Reply∗

Matz Dahlberg

Uppsala University, SE-751 05, Uppsala, Sweden

matz.dahlberg@ibf.uu.se

Karin Edmark

Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

karin.edmark@sofi.su.se

Hel´

ene Berg†

Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

helene.berg@ne.su.se

Abstract

Here, we respond to the comments raised by Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom on our paper

Dahlberg et al. (2012, Journal of Political Economy 120, 41–76). We argue that our estimates

are internally valid, but we acknowledge that the external validity could have been discussed

more thoroughly.

Keywords: Ethnic heterogeneity; immigration; income redistribution

JEL classification:D31; D64; Z13

I. Introduction

In this issue of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Nekby and

Pettersson-Lidbom comment on Dahlberg et al. (2012).1We welcome this

discussion, and in this reply we briefly respond to three of the issues raised:

possible measures of preferences for redistribution, sample selection bias,

and the use of the refugee placement policy as an instrument for immi-

gration. Lengthier responses to these issues, and also responses to some

∗We thank Per Johansson as well as participants at the Political Economy Workshop held

in Oslo in December 2012 for insightful comments. K. Edmark and H. Berg are grateful

for financial support from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius foundation. The authors are

listed in the original alphabetic order and this does not indicate a degree of contribution.

†Previously Hel´

ene Lundqvist.

1Hereafter, we refer to the comment by Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom as NP-L, and we

refer to the article by Dahlberg et al. (2012) as DEL.

CThe editors of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2016.