Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2009
This paper proposes a new method to measure ethnolinguistic diversity and offers new results linking such diversity with a range of political economy outcomes — civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the...