Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Arbeitspapier

This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the study explores the impact of these traits on the educational attainment of second generation migrants in the US. The results suggest that college attendance among individuals with identical ancestry is (i) higher if the dominating language at home has a periphrastic future tense, and (ii) lower for women exposed predominantly to sex-based grammatical gender.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 570

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: Comparative Development ; Human Capital ; Education ; Language Structure ; Future Tense ; Grammatical Gender ; Cultural Evolution ; Gender Bias ; Long-term Orientation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Galor, Oded ; Özak, Ömer ; Sarid, Assaf
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Global Labor Organization (GLO)
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/218948
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ