Yao, Y., Ohinata, A. and van Ours, J. (2016). The educational consequences of language proficiency for young children Economics of Education Review, 54:1--15.
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Publication year2016
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JournalEconomics of Education Review
Our 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? dialect-speaking on test scores. We find no evidence for spillover effect of peers? dialect-speaking. The test scores of neither Dutch-speaking children nor dialect-speaking children are affected by the share of dialect-speaking peers in the classroom.