Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform

We estimate the wage effects of bilingual education for the first time using a reform that introduced bilingualism in Catalan schools. Variation across years of schooling and birth cohorts provides identification. We find substantial effects of bilingual education, which increases baseline returns t...

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Autores: Cappellari, Lorenzo, Di Paolo, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Ensenyament bilingüe
Reforma de l'educació
Llengua i ensenyament
Bilingual education
Educational change
Language and education
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spelling Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reformCappellari, LorenzoDi Paolo, AntonioEnsenyament bilingüeReforma de l'educacióLlengua i ensenyamentBilingual educationEducational changeLanguage and educationWe estimate the wage effects of bilingual education for the first time using a reform that introduced bilingualism in Catalan schools. Variation across years of schooling and birth cohorts provides identification. We find substantial effects of bilingual education, which increases baseline returns to education by about 20%. Robustness checks show that effects stem from exposure to the language-in-education reform and are neither a consequence of unobservable determinants of educational attainment nor an artifact of education-cohort specific trends in wages. The reform was mostly beneficial for individuals of non-Catalan background from low parental background, thus achieving its goal of leveling the playing field in a bilingual society.Elsevier2018202120182018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion12 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/121584Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.03.007Economics of Education Review, 2018, vol. 64, p. 90-101https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.03.007cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier, 2018http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1215842026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
title Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
spellingShingle Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
Cappellari, Lorenzo
Ensenyament bilingüe
Reforma de l'educació
Llengua i ensenyament
Bilingual education
Educational change
Language and education
title_short Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
title_full Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
title_fullStr Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
title_full_unstemmed Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
title_sort Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cappellari, Lorenzo
Di Paolo, Antonio
author Cappellari, Lorenzo
author_facet Cappellari, Lorenzo
Di Paolo, Antonio
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ensenyament bilingüe
Reforma de l'educació
Llengua i ensenyament
Bilingual education
Educational change
Language and education
topic Ensenyament bilingüe
Reforma de l'educació
Llengua i ensenyament
Bilingual education
Educational change
Language and education
description We estimate the wage effects of bilingual education for the first time using a reform that introduced bilingualism in Catalan schools. Variation across years of schooling and birth cohorts provides identification. We find substantial effects of bilingual education, which increases baseline returns to education by about 20%. Robustness checks show that effects stem from exposure to the language-in-education reform and are neither a consequence of unobservable determinants of educational attainment nor an artifact of education-cohort specific trends in wages. The reform was mostly beneficial for individuals of non-Catalan background from low parental background, thus achieving its goal of leveling the playing field in a bilingual society.
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