Bilingual education in Peru: Evidence on how Quechua-medium education affects indigenous children's academic achievement

Disa Hynsjo and Amy Damon

Economics of Education Review, 2016, vol. 53, issue C, 116-132

Abstract: This study uses the Peruvian Young Lives International Study of Childhood Poverty's School Level data to investigate the effect of Quechua-medium instruction on academic achievement. We find that Indigenous children who attend Quechua-medium schools achieve 0.429 standard deviations higher scores in mathematics compared to Indigenous children who attend Spanish-medium schools. There is no evidence that these effects are caused by quantitative or language achievement acquired prior to entering school. Our findings suggest that Quechua-medium education for children of Quechua speaking parents may play a role in ameliorating the Indigenous test score gap.

Keywords: Bilingual education; Peru; Education production function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I25 J15 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.05.006

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