Gender Matters in Language and Economic Behaviour: Can we Measure a Causal Cognition Effect of Speaking?
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T1 - Gender Matters in Language and Economic Behaviour
T2 - Can we Measure a Causal Cognition Effect of Speaking?
AU - Beblo, Miriam
AU - Görges, Luise
AU - Markowsky, Eva
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - We study potential drivers of the link between gendered languages and gender differences in economic behaviour that economists have recently documented. Combining identity economics and linguistic theory, our formal model distinguishes a direct effect of speaking a gendered language from indirect effects through gender norms and highlights pitfalls in discriminating these effects empirically, particularly when studying behaviour of immigrants. Our empirical exercises illustrate the severity of the problem, as self-selection and intergenerational transmission of traits appear to bias estimates of the link between migrant behaviour and gendered language.
AB - We study potential drivers of the link between gendered languages and gender differences in economic behaviour that economists have recently documented. Combining identity economics and linguistic theory, our formal model distinguishes a direct effect of speaking a gendered language from indirect effects through gender norms and highlights pitfalls in discriminating these effects empirically, particularly when studying behaviour of immigrants. Our empirical exercises illustrate the severity of the problem, as self-selection and intergenerational transmission of traits appear to bias estimates of the link between migrant behaviour and gendered language.
KW - Economics
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085348005&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101850
DO - 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101850
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85085348005
VL - 65
JO - Labour Economics
JF - Labour Economics
SN - 0927-5371
M1 - 101850
ER -