Add to ORKGAn electronic version of the paper may be downloaded • from the SSRN website: www.SSRN.com • from the RePEc website: www.RePEc.org • from the CESifo website: Twww.CESifo-group.org/wp T CESifo Working Paper No. 2961 Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in 45,000 schools. Matching this information to 439 current German regions, we construct a dialect ...
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Several studies have demonstrated that there is a “critical period” for language acquisition ending ...
In this study we examine linguistic variation and its dependence on both social and geographic facto...
We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identit...
It has long been argued that economic phenomena are affected by culture. However, the causal effect ...
We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identit...
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a com...
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a com...
The impact of geography on language and dialect variation has been subject to a vast number of studi...
This chapter examines how cultural similarities (or differences) represented by common language root...
This paper analyzes the impact of cultural proximity on economic exchanges and, in particular, on to...
Theoretical work on language ideology has provided a great deal of insight into the nature of langua...
The study of economics-focused linguistic phenomena appears problematic. The aim of the research is ...
Political and economic risks arise from social phenomena that spread within and across countries. Re...
Using three worldwide databases, we investigate how average similarity between pairs of languages an...
In this handbook, Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber bring together methodological, theoretical, and ...
Several studies have demonstrated that there is a “critical period” for language acquisition ending ...
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