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| Title: | The political economy of linguistic cleavages |
| Author(s): | Desmet, Klaus [desmet]
Ortuño, Ignacio [iortuno]
Wacziarg, Romain |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Issued date: | Mar-2012 |
| Citation: | Journal of Development Economics, 2012, v. 97, n. 2, pp. 322-338 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10016/14226 |
| ISSN: | 0304-3878 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.003 |
| Abstract: | This paper uses a linguistic tree, describing the genealogical relationship between all 6912 world languages, to compute measures of diversity at different levels of linguistic aggregation. By doing so, we let the data inform us on which linguistic cleavages are most relevant for a range of political economy outcomes, rather than making ad hoc choices. We find that deep cleavages, originating thousands of years ago, lead to better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution. The opposite pattern emerges when it comes to the impact of linguistic diversity on growth and public goods provision, where finer distinctions between languages matter |
| Sponsor: | Desmet gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Comunidad de Madrid (PROCIUDAD-CM), and the Spanish Ministry of Science (ECO2008-01300). Ortuño-Ortín gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science (ECO2010-19596). Wacziarg gratefully acknowledges financial support from Stanford University's Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies and from UCLA's Center for International Business Education and Research |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.003 |
| Keywords: | Ethnolinguistic cleavages
Diversity
Linguistic trees
Civil conflict
Redistribution
Public goods
Growth |
| JEL Classification: | H1
N4
O4
O5 |
| Rights: | © Elsevier |
| Appears in Collections: | Economists Online
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