TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Galor, Oded
AU  - Özak, Ömer
AU  - Sarid, Assaf
        TI  - Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
        PY  - 2020/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12894
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12894
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - sex-based grammatical gender
KW  - periphrastic future tense
KW  - gender bias
KW  - long-term orientation
KW  - human capital
KW  - culture
KW  - language
        ER  -