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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Published in:	Economic Inquiry Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 38 - 54
Main Authors:	Gonzalez, Javier, Özak, Ömer
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jan2026
Subjects:	Barter Anthropological linguistics Agriculture Economic research Similarity (Language learning) Computer software
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost