Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

The authors are grateful to Joan Bybee, Justin Cook, Delia Furtado, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso, Klaus Desmet, Stelios Michalopoulos, and David Weil, as well as conference participants at the “Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association”; “Deep Rooted Factors in Comparative Development”, Zeuthen Lectures, Copenhagen, NBER, Political Economy Meeting, and seminar participants at Ben-Gurion, Brown, Clark, Haifa, Southern Methodist, Tel-Aviv, and UC - Merced, for useful comments and discussions. The research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation, Grant No. 1331/18. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.