Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak and Assaf Sarid

No 26699, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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.

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Date: 2020-01
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Published as Oded Galor & Ömer Özak & Assaf Sarid, 2020. "Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation," AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol 110, pages 309-313.

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