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) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant … significantly impact the standardized test scores of students with Spanish as their home language (comprised primarily of ever …
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Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …
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This paper proposes a new method to measure ethnolinguistic diversity and offers new results linking such diversity with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the...
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language in visual art was dominated by conceptual artists, and the increasing role of language over time was symptomatic of … intellectual activity, to be read. The prominence of language is yet another way in which the visual art of the twentieth century …
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century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …
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, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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by establishing trade policies that promoted trade within empires. In particular, the use of a common language, the …
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. Language acquisition is an important element in immigrant/native earnings convergence, but most of this convergence is … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of … with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit …
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Text data is ultra-high dimensional, which makes machine learning techniques indispensable for textual analysis. Text is often selected—journalists, speechwriters, and others craft messages to target their audiences' limited attention. We develop an economically motivated high dimensional...
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