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22 avril 2013
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Culture Gender Grammar Labor Language Occupation Politics J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J1 - Demographic Economics/J.J1.J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J8 - Labor Standards: National and International/J.J8.J82 - Labor Force Composition O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors • Shadow Economy • Institutional Arrangements Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic AnthropologySujets proches
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Victor Gay et al., « The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.yeej5i
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We investigate the relation between gender marking in grammar and female participation in the labor market, the credit market, land ownership, and politics. Crosscountry and individual-level analyses reveal that women speaking languages that more pervasively mark gender distinctions are less likely to participate in economic and political life and more likely to encounter barriers in their access to land and credit. These findings are robust to a large set of controls and robustness checks. We also found that the impact of a language's gender structure remains after controlling for culture, for historical agricultural use of the plough.