Ethnolinguistic diversity and urban agglomeration [Economic Sciences]

This article shows that higher ethnolinguistic diversity is associated with a greater risk of social tensions and conflict, which, in turn, is a dispersion force lowering urbanization and the incentives to move to big cities. We construct a worldwide dataset at a fine-grained level on urban settlement patterns and ethnolinguistic...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - July 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Ulrich J. Eberle, J. Vernon Henderson, Dominic Rohner, Kurt Schmidheiny Tags: Social Sciences Source Type: research