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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants … especially those with limited English language skills and recent data suggest that North Carolina has the 8th largest ELL student …. Rather, it is the limited English language skills of some of these students that leads to small, negative peer effects on …