TY - JOUR
T1 - Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
AU - Galor, Oded
AU - Özak, Ömer
AU - Sarid, Assaf
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense and its association with long-term orientation has a significant positive impact on educational attainment, whereas the presence of sex-based grammatical gender, and its association with gender bias, has a significant adverse impact on female educational attainment.
AB - This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense and its association with long-term orientation has a significant positive impact on educational attainment, whereas the presence of sex-based grammatical gender, and its association with gender bias, has a significant adverse impact on female educational attainment.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20201069
DO - https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20201069
M3 - Conference article
VL - 110
SP - 309
EP - 313
JO - AEA Papers and Proceedings
JF - AEA Papers and Proceedings
ER -