The effect of language on economic behavior : evidence from savings rates, health behaviors, and retirement assets.
Bibliografía : páginas 729-731.
Language and future-time reference, 692 ; A linguistic-savings hypothesis, 695 ; Data and methods, 698 ; Results, 703 ; Discussion, 718 ; Conclusion, 721
Languages differ widely in the ways they encode time. This prediction arises naturally when well-documented effects of language structure are merged with models of intertemporal choice.