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influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
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According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the 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...
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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. …
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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 …
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Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. In this paper, we ask whether a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a...
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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 …
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This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
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background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with … willingness to pay taxes, than did those whose language and diet identified them as being from the south. On the other hand, self …
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This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …
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We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …
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