Trade and ethnolinguistic differences: A replication and extension.

We revisit the role of trade on long‐run inter‐ethnic linguistic differences. Dickens (2022) hypothesized that neighboring languages are more similar when agriculture provides potential gains from inter‐ethnic trade. Since his empirical approach confounds inter‐ and intra‐ethnic trade, we replicate...

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Publicado en:Economic Inquiry Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 38 - 54
Autores principales: Gonzalez, Javier, Özak, Ömer
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2026
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