• Medientyp: Bericht; E-Book
  • Titel: Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
  • Beteiligte: Isphording, Ingo E. [Verfasser:in]; Piopiunik, Marc [Verfasser:in]; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2015
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: immigrants ; math performance ; Z13 ; I21 ; age-at-arrival ; language ; instrumental variable ; I24 ; linguistic distance
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  • Beschreibung: 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.
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