’ academic achievements. In this study, I investigate whether having a foreign origin teacher causally affects the language …

This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary … experience in language learning, bilingual teachers seem exceptionally well-equipped in teaching languages to both native and …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … with a higher concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English language proficiency and …

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all …

between those who have strong English language skills and those who do not. This study deploys a correspondence experiment … conducted on a matrimonial website, to examine returns to English language skills for females in a marriage market in Delhi …. Indicating strong English language skills in a marriage profile increases the number of views and interests received by 20% and …

foreign language acquisition focusing on Norway. In Norway all students are taught, and are assessed, in English from an early … age. We demonstrate that exposure to native English-speaking peers increase Norwegian students' English language skills … English language skills and provide evidence of positive spillovers from immigrant diversity in schools that is missing from …

robust to controls for height, body weight, and English language skills, and to corrections for sample-selection bias. Our …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom … English language skills significantly lower the probability of having no qualifications and raise that of obtaining academic …

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that … covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in the EU is strongly associated with immigration. Instead, immigration by non-EU citizens in associated with …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …