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The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorDesmet, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Joseph Flavian
dc.contributor.authorOrtuño Ortín, Ignacio
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-16T13:42:42Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T00:00:05Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different ethnolinguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The conceptual framework we develop suggests that a country’s public goods (i) decrease in its overall ethnolinguistic fractionalization, and (ii) either increase or decrease in its local-global ethnolinguistic complementarity, a measure of how local interaction affects antagonism towards other groups in the society at large. After constructing a 5 km by 5 km dataset on language use for 223 countries, we empirically explore these theoretical predictions. While overall fractionalization worsens public goods outcomes, local interaction mitigates this negative association. Conditional on a country’s overall diversity, public goods outcomes are maximized when there are a few large-sized groups and the diversity of each location mirrors that of the country as a whole.en
dc.description.sponsorshipGomes gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Fundación Ramón Areces, and Ortuño-Ortín thanks the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants ECO2013-42710-P and MDM 2014-0431).en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationDesmet, K., Gomes, J. F., & Ortuño-Ortín, I. (2020). The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods. En Journal of Development Economics,143, p. 102384.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102384
dc.identifier.issn0304-3878
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage27es
dc.identifier.publicationtitleJOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSes
dc.identifier.publicationvolume143es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34812
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000025627
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherElsevieres
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2013-42710-Pes
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. MDM 2014-0431es
dc.rights© 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reservedes
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accesses
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.subject.jelH4
dc.subject.jelO18
dc.subject.jelO57
dc.subject.jelR1
dc.subject.jelZ10
dc.subject.jelZ13
dc.subject.otherAntagonismen
dc.subject.otherEthnolinguistic diversityen
dc.subject.otherGeographic diversityen
dc.subject.otherLocal interactionen
dc.subject.otherPublic goodsen
dc.titleThe geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goodsen
dc.typeresearch article*
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