The educational consequences of language proficiency for young children

Yuxin Yao, Asako Ohinata and Jan C. van Ours

Economics of Education Review, 2016, vol. 54, issue C, 1-15

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Dialect-speaking; Test scores; Spillover effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.05.008

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