Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper explores the relationship between linguistic diversity and the stock of health information in society. Information is measured using individual-level knowledge about the oral rehydration product for treating children with diarrhea. Exploiting an individual woman-level dataset from the Dem...

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Main Author:	Gomes, Joseph Flavian
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY FRACTIONALIZATION LINGUISTIC DISTANCE HEALTH INFORMATION CHILD HEALTH
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36119

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spelling	okr-10986-361192021-08-17T14:20:22Z Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa Gomes, Joseph Flavian LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY FRACTIONALIZATION LINGUISTIC DISTANCE HEALTH INFORMATION CHILD HEALTH This paper explores the relationship between linguistic diversity and the stock of health information in society. Information is measured using individual-level knowledge about the oral rehydration product for treating children with diarrhea. Exploiting an individual woman-level dataset from the Demographic and Health Surveys for 14 sub-Saharan African countries combined with a novel high-resolution dataset on the spatial distribution of linguistic groups at a 1 km × 1 km level, this study shows that linguistic diversity has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the stock of information in society. 2021-08-13T20:03:18Z 2021-08-13T20:03:18Z 2020-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36119 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic	LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY FRACTIONALIZATION LINGUISTIC DISTANCE HEALTH INFORMATION CHILD HEALTH
spellingShingle	LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY FRACTIONALIZATION LINGUISTIC DISTANCE HEALTH INFORMATION CHILD HEALTH Gomes, Joseph Flavian Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	This paper explores the relationship between linguistic diversity and the stock of health information in society. Information is measured using individual-level knowledge about the oral rehydration product for treating children with diarrhea. Exploiting an individual woman-level dataset from the Demographic and Health Surveys for 14 sub-Saharan African countries combined with a novel high-resolution dataset on the spatial distribution of linguistic groups at a 1 km × 1 km level, this study shows that linguistic diversity has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the stock of information in society.
format	Journal Article
author	Gomes, Joseph Flavian
author_facet	Gomes, Joseph Flavian
author_sort	Gomes, Joseph Flavian
title	Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	linguistic fractionalization and health information in sub-saharan africa
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2021
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36119
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Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa

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