We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In … differently if their self-reported gender matched the grammatical gender used in the instructions. The results reveal that the …

Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They … refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the pronouns "he," "she," or the gender-inclusive singular "they." In … languages with grammatical gender, the nouns and the grammatical structure they are embedded in mark them as either male, female …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

from 1985 to 2004. A special emphasis is put on the role of the language spoken in the various municipalities. Our results … sensitive to tax rates set by their close neighbours only. We also reject the hypothesis that the language does not matter: in … municipalities speaking different languages than between municipalities speaking the same language. That observation is particularly …

; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If …-benefit calculation has to be augmented in various ways if rights influence the status of a language, which in turn influences the … preferences for language rights. Also the inter-generational transfer of language repertoires to the next generation leads to an …