TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dasgupta, Indraneel
AU  - Neogi, Ranajoy Guha
        TI  - Between-Group Contests over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation
        PY  - 2017/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10881
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10881
        AB  - We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each group is fragmented into sub-groups. Each sub-group allocates effort between production and contestation. There is perfect coordination within sub-groups, but sub-groups cannot coordinate with one another. All sub-groups choose effort allocations simultaneously. We find that aggregate rent-seeking rises, social welfare falls, and both communities are worse off when the dominant sub-groups within both communities increase their population shares relative to the respective average sub-group population. 
Any unilateral increase in fragmentation within a group reduces conflict and makes its opponent better off. The fragmenting community itself may however be better off as well, even though its share of the public good falls. Thus, a reduced share of public good provisioning cannot be used to infer a negative welfare implication for the losing community.
        KW  - contest
KW  - group-specific public good
KW  - local public good
KW  - ethnic conflict
KW  - within-group fragmentation
        ER  -