Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 322-338
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 are most relevant for a range of...