Analysis of a fine-grained dataset on language use in 1975 and geographic distribution of populations in 2015 for 3,540 provinces in 170 countries revealed links between ethnic fractionalization--the degree to which a given population was segmented into different groups at the provincial level in 1975--and urbanization as well as several measures of armed conflict between 1975 and 2015, and the findings could help inform policies to minimize negative impacts of ethnolinguistic tensions on economic development.
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Article #20-02148: "Ethnolinguistic diversity and urban agglomeration," by Ulrich Eberle, J. Vernon Henderson, Dominic Rohner, and Kurt Schmidheiny.
MEDIA CONTACTS: Ulrich Eberle, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM; e-mail: <u.eberle@lse.ac.uk>; J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM; e-mail: J.V.Henderson@lse.ac.uk; Dominic Rohner, University of Lausanne, SWITZERLAND; e-mail: dominic.rohner@unil.ch; Kurt Schmidheiny, University of Basel, SWITZERLAND; e-mail: kurt.schmidheiny@unibas.ch
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences