Abstract
Research on ethno-linguistic ties has so far mostly focused on domestic measures of ethno-linguistic heterogeneity. Little attention has been given to the possibility that ethno-linguistic relations between countries may aect out- comes, particularly in a spatial econometric context. In this paper, I propose a way of measuring Ethno-Linguistic A¢ nity between nations. This new index measures the degree of similarity two randomly drawn individuals from two dierent populations can be expected to share. I show that this measure has a number of attractive theoretical characteristics, which make it particularly usable and continue to actually construct such a measure for all countries in Africa. Finally, using this measure of Ethno-Linguistic A¢ nity, I show that civil con‡ict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno-linguistically
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