The political economy of linguistic cleavages

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain

The political economy of linguistic cleavages

Autor(es): Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain

Editorial: Elsevier

Fecha de edición: 2012-03

Cita: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, v. 97, n. 2, pp. 322-338

ISSN: 0304-3878

DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.003

Agradecimientos: 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

Versión del editor: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.003

Proyecto: Gobierno de España. ECO2008-01300
Gobierno de España. ECO2010-19596

Palabras clave: Ethnolinguistic cleavages , Diversity , Linguistic trees , Civil conflict , Redistribution , Public goods , Growth

Clasificación JEL: H1 , N4 , O4 , O5

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/14226

Derechos: © Elsevier

Resumen:

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 [+]

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