Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identity: dialects. We evaluate linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The recorded geography of dialects comprehensively...