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 …-cognitive capacity. We find that the language development of bilingual children is not significantly different to that of their …

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 …

We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we …

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. The difference remains …

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between … dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a … modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In addition, we study whether there are spillover effects of peers …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …

This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in … discriminates between three forms of mismatch, overqualification, under-qualification and over-skilling. Host language proficiency … children learn languages more easily than older ones. To differentiate between local average treatment effects (LATE) and …