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 …

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 …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …

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 …