Owen Ozier - World Bank, DECRG
Gendered Language
Date: 10/18/2018 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Gross Hall 270
Organizer: Manoj Mohanan, Ph.D.
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All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
8:30am - Breakfast- Robyn Meeks, Manoj Mohanan
10:00am - Duncan Thomas
10:30am - Giovanna Merli
11:00am - Matt Masten
11:30am - Romina Tome, Jessica Miranda
12:00pm - Lunch- Gabriel Cunha, Jeremy Lebow, Damien Kim
1:00pm - Faraz Usmani
1:25pm - Thomas Polley
1:50pm - Gabor Nyeki
2:15pm - Rob Garlick
2:45pm - Marcos Rangel
3:15pm - Seminar Prep
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
6:00pm - Dinner w/ Marcos Rangel, Rob Garlick, Raymond Guiteras
Additional Comments: Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many — sometimes all — nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. At the cross-country level, we document a robust negative relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women’s labor force participation. In countries in Sub-Saharan Africa where indigenous languages vary in terms of their gender structure, as well as within India, we show that educational attainment and female labor force participation are lower among those whose native languages are gender languages. Our cross-country data also permit a novel permutation test, demonstrating that the patterns we find are robust to statistical correction for the clustered nature of variation in linguistic structures within hierarchical language families.