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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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Geographical origins of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
investment contributed to the existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense, (ii) the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058635
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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie F. - 2006
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic selfidentification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272281
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Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-Emotional Skills: Evidence from Large Scale Studies of Very Young Children
Bando, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016
This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584630
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Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-emotional Skills in Early Childhood
Bando Grana, Rosangela; López-Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016
This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535786
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Gendered Language
Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen - 2020
Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4,000 languages which together account for more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207807
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584694
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584853
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömar; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669326
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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 … ancestry is (i) higher if the dominating language at home has a periphrastic future tense, and (ii) lower for women exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224921