Despite the well-established importance of verbal engagement for infant language and cognitive development, many …, and that their infants have more advanced language and cognitive skills. We measure positive but noisy effects on parental …

Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more … likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training …

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …

language acquisition and refugee incorporation, which typically rely on self-reported measures of fluency. Our findings are …

We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …

arrived in the 1950s and 1960s eventually surpassed the average native wage. Improvements in English language skills …

Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of … less likely when an immigrant's native culture and language is broadly represented in his new country. Also, when …

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census of Population to examine the English language skills of natives …

English language proficiency. Rather, they appear to be the result of Spanish speakers having relatively little of those labor …

spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of …