Linguistic Traits and Human Capital FormationOded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
NBER Working Paper No. 26699 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. You may purchase this paper on-line in .pdf format from SSRN.com ($5) for electronic delivery.
Acknowledgments and Disclosures Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w26699 |

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