Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12894

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Education and Economic Development ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: human capital ; long-term orientation ; gender bias ; periphrastic future tense ; sex-based grammatical gender ; culture ; language

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Galor, Oded ; Özak, Ömer ; Sarid, Assaf
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215290
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET