The political economy of linguistic cleavages

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain

The political economy of linguistic cleavages

Author(s): Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain

Publisher: Elsevier

Issued date: 2012-03

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

ISSN: 0304-3878

DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.003

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

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

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

JEL Classification: H1 , N4 , O4 , O5

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

Rights: © Elsevier

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 [+]

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