TY - JOUR
T1 - Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform
AU - Cappellari, Lorenzo
AU - paolo, antonio di
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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 increase baseline returns to education by about 20 percent. 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 artefact 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 levelling the playing field in a bilingual society.
AB - 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 increase baseline returns to education by about 20 percent. 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 artefact 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 levelling the playing field in a bilingual society.
KW - language policy
KW - language policy
UR - https://publicatt.unicatt.it/handle/10807/117088
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U2 - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.03.007
DO - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.03.007
M3 - Article
SN - 0272-7757
VL - 2018
SP - 90
EP - 101
JO - Economics of Education Review
JF - Economics of Education Review
IS - 64
ER -