Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak and Assaf Sarid

No 2001, Departmental Working Papers from Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Human capital; Long-term Orientation; Gender Bias; Periphrastic Future Tense; Sex-Based Grammatical Gender; Culture; Language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 I25 J16 J24 Z10 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01
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