present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the … future by using present tense (like German). We complement Chen's approach with experimentally elicited time preference data … from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely …

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 …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in a model with region and ethnicity fixed effects. Our results indicate that … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic …

educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a …

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 …

grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in … 45,000 schools. Matching this information to 439 current German regions, we construct a dialect similarity matrix. Using … ; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …