LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND REDISTRIBUTION

By Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin, Shlomo Weber. 2009

269 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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In Demography

1. Romain Wacziarg
2. Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
3. Klaus Desmet
4. Kate Baldwin
5. Samuel Bazzi
6. Markus Brückner
7. John D. Huber
8. Alexander D. Rothenberg

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Romain Wacziarg
2. Klaus Desmet
3. Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
4. Samuel Bazzi
5. Kate Baldwin
6. Markus Brückner
7. John D. Huber
8. Alexander D. Rothenberg

Citations in the corpus

• Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia (2016, background): “Location-specific 9We winsorize yields at 20 tons/ha to account for measurement error, but our results are robust to alternative cutoffs.”
• Cultural diversity and economic growth: Evidence from the US during the age of mass migration (2013, background): “Fearon (2003) and more recently Desmet et al. (2009a) and Esteban et al. (2010) try to tackle this measurement issue by proxying inter-group distances with linguistic distances.”
• The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, methodology): “These results are robust to considering alternative sets of controls, as in Desmet et al. (2009), with the caveat that with a sufficiently restricted set of control variables, the effect of linguistic diversity remains statistically significant even at low levels of aggregation, although…”
• Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization (2014, unknown): “Desmet, Weber, and Ortuño-Ortín (2009) develop two indices. One index measures the probability of two randomly chosen individuals being from different ethno-linguistic groups and does not take into account the distances between the different groups (ELF), while the other one takes distances between ”
• Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision (2010, background): “One reason is that ethnic similarities make it easier for individuals to communicate with each other (e.g., Bacharach and Gambetta 2001; Deutsch 1966).”
• The stability and breakup of nations: a quantitative analysis (2011, unknown): “See Desmet et al. (2009a). and composition of the other countries.”