Arbeitspapier
Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in agricultural productivity, and more hierarchical society, are at the root of existing cross-language variations in the presence of the future tense, grammatical gender, and politeness distinctions. Moreover, the research suggests that while language structures have largely reflected the coding of past human experience and in particular the range of ancestral cultural traits in society, they independently affected human behavior and economic outcomes.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10379
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Economic Development
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: General
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
Institutions and Growth
Environment and Growth
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
- Thema
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comparative development
cultural evolution
language structure
future tense
politeness distinctions
grammatical gender
human capital
education
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Galor, Oded
Özak, Ömer
Sarid, Assaf
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Galor, Oded
- Özak, Ömer
- Sarid, Assaf
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2016
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