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 …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to …

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 …