Interdisciplinary seminars French-Japanese webinar

Yannick Dupraz

AMSE

Linguistic distance and migration in India

Joint with Latika Chaudhar

Online

Date(s): Friday, March 3 2023
10:00am to 11:00am
Contact(s): Gilles Dufrénot: gilles.dufrenot[at]sciencespo-aix.fr
Kiyotaka Sato: sato[at]ynu.ac.jp
More information: Yannick Dupraz's webpage

Abstract

Does linguistic distance reduce migration? We study India at the beginning of the 20th century and today. We use historical and recent census data. In a bilateral gravity model, we regress migration between two regions on their linguistic distance, controlling for various measures of physical distance and similarity.