全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP11683 The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP11683
	DP11683 The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
	Klaus Desmet; Joseph Flavian Gomes; Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
发表日期	2016-12-04
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other groups, the micro-founded theory we develop predicts that a country's provision of public goods (i) decreases in its overall linguistic fractionalization, and (ii) either increases or decreases in how much individuals locally learn about other groups. After constructing a 5 km by 5 km geographic dataset on language use for 223 countries, we compute measures of overall fractionalization and local learning, and investigate their relation to public good provision at the country level. While overall fractionalization worsens outcomes, we find a positive causal relation between local learning and public goods. Local mixing therefore mitigates the negative impact of a country's overall linguistic fractionalization. An IV strategy shows that this result is not driven by the possible endogenous spatial distribution of language speakers within countries.
主题	Public Economics
关键词	Linguistic diversity Spatial distribution of diversity Local learning Contact theory Public goods
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp11683
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540497
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Klaus Desmet,Joseph Flavian Gomes,Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin. DP11683 The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods. 2016.