from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …

exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host …-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across …

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

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

from 1985 to 2004. A special emphasis is put on the role of the language spoken in the various municipalities. Our results … sensitive to tax rates set by their close neighbours only. We also reject the hypothesis that the language does not matter: in … municipalities speaking different languages than between municipalities speaking the same language. That observation is particularly …

; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If …-benefit calculation has to be augmented in various ways if rights influence the status of a language, which in turn influences the … preferences for language rights. Also the inter-generational transfer of language repertoires to the next generation leads to an …