). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position …

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights … property rights protection might exacerbate such language conflicts, even as they reduce the chances of persisting with …

identify the causal effect of English proficiency on cognitive test scores, I use the fact that language proficiency is closely … badly or badly can explain 27–33% of the achievement gap between native and immigrant children in standardized language …-related tests. However, I find no significant language effects for applied maths problems or calculations …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …

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 …

similarities between student and teacher. This study is the first to examine the role of native language similarity. Using a …, this study exploits variation in contemporaneous test scores and whether the student shares the same native language as the …

-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 …