Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public … goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the genealogical relationship between the entire set of 6,912 world languages, to …, originating thousands of years ago, lead to measures of diversity that are better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution …