Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society

We investigate the causal effect of parents’ linguistic skills on the intergenerational language transmission in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of similar sizes, and both languages are official, and exploit the...

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Autores: Caminal, Ramón, Cappellari, Lorenzo, Di Paolo, Antonio
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2021
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositório:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palavra-chave:Language
Intergenerational transmission
Language proficiency
Language-in-education reform
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spelling Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual societyCaminal, RamónCappellari, LorenzoDi Paolo, AntonioLanguageIntergenerational transmissionLanguage proficiencyLanguage-in-education reformWe investigate the causal effect of parents’ linguistic skills on the intergenerational language transmission in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of similar sizes, and both languages are official, and exploit the natural experiment generated by a language-in-education reform. We discuss theoretically the main alternative channels through which such policies may affect the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we find that the reform improved oral skills in Catalan among native Spanish speakers. These greater skills increased the propensity to speak Catalan with the offspring, which highlights the intergenerational spillovers overs of the reform. We also show that the effect is not confounded by spurious trends, potential changes in language identity, and linguistically mixed partnership formation.We gratefully acknowledge funding from: Spanish Ministry of Finance, Industry, and Competitiveness ECO2017–88129-P (AEI/FEDER, UE), Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D SEV-2015–0563 and Generalitat de Catalunya 2017-SGR1136 (Caminal); Università Cattolica D32 ESEM strategic research grant (Cappellari); Spanish Ministry of Finance, Industry, and Competitiveness ECO2016–75805-R, RecerCaixa 2016ACUP00020 (Di Paolo).Elsevier BVMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)Generalitat de CatalunyaEuropean CommissionFundación la CaixaConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2021202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/254065reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE##PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/SEV-2015-0563info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/ECO2016-75805-Rhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101975Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2540652026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
title Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
spellingShingle Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
Caminal, Ramón
Language
Intergenerational transmission
Language proficiency
Language-in-education reform
title_short Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
title_full Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
title_fullStr Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
title_full_unstemmed Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
title_sort Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Caminal, Ramón
Cappellari, Lorenzo
Di Paolo, Antonio
author Caminal, Ramón
author_facet Caminal, Ramón
Cappellari, Lorenzo
Di Paolo, Antonio
author_role author
author2 Cappellari, Lorenzo
Di Paolo, Antonio
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Generalitat de Catalunya
European Commission
Fundación la Caixa
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Language
Intergenerational transmission
Language proficiency
Language-in-education reform
topic Language
Intergenerational transmission
Language proficiency
Language-in-education reform
description We investigate the causal effect of parents’ linguistic skills on the intergenerational language transmission in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of similar sizes, and both languages are official, and exploit the natural experiment generated by a language-in-education reform. We discuss theoretically the main alternative channels through which such policies may affect the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we find that the reform improved oral skills in Catalan among native Spanish speakers. These greater skills increased the propensity to speak Catalan with the offspring, which highlights the intergenerational spillovers overs of the reform. We also show that the effect is not confounded by spurious trends, potential changes in language identity, and linguistically mixed partnership formation.
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