Language makes you poor

A Yale professor’s research suggests speaking English or European Portuguese can make you poor.  

But  speaking Mandarin or Brazilian Portuguese can help make better financial choices!

BBC report:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21518574 

Original paper:

http://faculty.som.yale.edu/keithchen/papers/LanguageWorkingPaper.pdf

Ending Poverty - What Engineers Can Do

Interesting analysis in this TEDx talk from Professor James Trevelyan of the University of Western Australia.