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, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …
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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. This result is robust when …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346563
, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528827
, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529903
-term beneficial goals (such as higher education or better health conditions). We show that the language children speak is …The ability of children to control the desire for immediate gratification is very important to achieve long … future by using present tense (like German). In our unique experiment, we let practically all primary school children, aged 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483249
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454358
This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …
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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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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 …
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