Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice …

programs. The intervention also significantly enhanced children's language skills measured with standardized tests of receptive …

in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze … children's language and emotional development in depth. We relax the usual assumption that the production function underpinning … child development is not itself a function of the age of the child and estimate the bilingual gap in children's language and …

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

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among … international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to …

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between … modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In addition, we study whether there are spillover effects of peers …