Data and Code for: Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Oded Galor, Brown University; Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University; Assaf Sarid, University of Haifa

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Project Citation: 

Galor, Oded, Özak, Ömer, and Sarid, Assaf. Data and Code for: Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-05-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117085V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
      I25 Education and Economic Development
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      Z10 Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2000 – 2019
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2016 – 2019
Universe:  View help for Universe Children of migrants in the US. 

(i) migrant children born overseas who arrived to the US before the age of 5, (``one-and-a-half generation migrants")
(ii) children born in the US to at least one foreign parent (``second generation migrants").
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; census/enumeration data; geographic information system (GIS) data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Ronald Goeken, Josiah Grover, Erin Meyer, Jose Pacas and Matthew Sobek. IPUMS USA: Version 9.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2019. https://doi.org/10.18128/D010.V9.0

Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info, Accessed on 2020-01-07.)

Galor, Oded, Ömer Özak, and Assaf Sarid. "Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures." (2016).
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Individuals
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit State

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