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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation / Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galor, Oded.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26699.
- NBER working paper series no. w26699
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2020.
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