influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children’s host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents’ lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The …

or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication …

Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language … general equilibrium implications of domestic language proximity, we simulate the repeal of Quebec’s Bill 101, which made … French an official language in Canada and established fundamental language rights for French-speakers. The analysis …