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Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas
Chin, Aimee - 2012
) 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 …-LEP students). However, there are significant positive spillover effects to their non-LEP peers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460463
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Global Energy Outlook 2015
Newell, Richard G. - 2016
This paper assesses trends in the global energy sector through 2040 by harmonizing multiple projections issued by private, government, and inter-governmental organizations based on methods from "Global Energy Outlooks Comparison: Methods and Challenges" (Newell and Qian 2015). These projections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456599
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Trade Credit Contracts
Klapper, Leora F. - 2011
We employ a novel dataset on almost 30,000 trade credit contracts to describe the broad characteristics of the parties that contract together, the key contractual terms such as the discount for early payment and the days by when payment is due. Whereas prior work has typically used information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461512
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Language-Skill Complementarity : Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
Berman, Eli - 2000
We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. Language acquisition is found to interact positively with occupation level. Immigrant programmers and computer technicians have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471013
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded - 2020
This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479223
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Text Selection
Kelly, Bryan T. - 2019
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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Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018
translation-related search costs. Our results provide causal evidence that language barriers significantly hinder trade and that …
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Measure for Measure : The relationship between measures of instructional practice in middle school English Language Arts and teachers' value-added scores
Grossman, Pam - 2010
any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462638
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The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages
Desmet, Klaus - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463290
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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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