The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets.

By Keith Chen. The American Economic Review, 2013

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Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Women and corruption: What positions must they hold to make a difference? (2014, background): “It takes a value from 1 (high civil liberties) through 7 (low civil liberties), and is a broader measure of liberal democracy than political rights.(13) The index takes into account, among other things, the personal and social”
Human language reveals a universal positivity bias (2014, background): “Although language’s shaping effect on thinking has long been controversial (1–3), we know that a rich array of metaphor encodes our conceptualizations (4), word choice reflects our internal motives and immediate social roles (5–7), and the way a language represents the present and future may conditi”
Global Evidence on Economic Preferences* (2018, positive): “²² A prominent hypothesis in the social sciences is Weber’s (1930) argument of a “Protestant ethic”, which, among other aspects, is believed to have made people more ²¹For this analysis, we made use of the classification by Chen (2013), with minor additions and changes.”
Cultural Differences and Geography as Determinants of Online Prosocial Lending (2014, methodology): “Further, this WVS data has been applied in a number of studies published within leading journals over the last few years, each conducted with the intent of drawing generalizable conclusions (e.g., see Algan and Cahuc 2010; Chen 2013; Esteban et al. 2012).”
The influence of language differences on power dynamics in multinational teams (2017, background): “Whereas economists have already studied how linguistic structures of future tense influence the extent of native speakers’ future-oriented behavior (Chen, 2013) and how the intensity of linguistic gender markers correlates with gender discrimination (Hicks, Santacreu-Vasut, & Shoham, 2015; Santacreu”
Gender in Language and Gender in Employment (2015, methodology): “More recently, Chen (2013) studied whether being required to speak in a grammatically distinct way about future events influences the number of future-oriented actions taken by speakers.”
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science. (2022, positive): “Comparingindividualswithincountries,speakersoflanguageswithoutobligatoryfuturetensesavemore, smoke less, practicesafer sex,and are lessobese,relativetodemographically similar individuals who speak languageswith anobligatoryfuturetense[182].”