Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215290 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12894
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
human capital
long-term orientation
gender bias
periphrastic future tense
sex-based grammatical gender
culture
language
JEL: 
D91
I25
J16
J24
Z10
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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