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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180087
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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157462
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2020
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294773
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Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984542
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Geographical origins of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058635
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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873558
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224921
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Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State
Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022
We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208390
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Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State
Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022
We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351887
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843177