The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages

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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization (2014, positive): “The other control variables have been included following Desmet et al. (2012). Our main findings are not affected by the inclusion of additional controls.”
CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT (2017, background): “For intergroup distances, Laitin (2000), Fearon (2003), and Desmet et al. (2012) employ the linguistic distance between two groups as a proxy for group “cultural” distances in the space of public policy (see Esteban et al. 2012a,b for details).”
Extending the concept of the resource curse: natural resources and public spending on health (2014, methodology): “We control for this effect by adding a variable on ethnic fractionalization developed by Desmet et al. (2012).”