Abstract
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and destination country languages. Using four PISA waves, we find a strong influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for their educational career. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Economics |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| ISSN: | 0165-1765 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 43490 |
| Date Deposited: | 27. Apr 2018, 08:04 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:18 |
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