Speaking in numbers: The effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants
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- Isphording, Ingo E. & Piopiunik, Marc & Rodríguez-Planas, Núria, 2016. "Speaking in numbers: The effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants," Munich Reprints in Economics 43490, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Ingo E. Isphording & Marc Piopiunik & Núria Rodríguez-Planas, 2015. "Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants," CESifo Working Paper Series 5589, CESifo.
- Isphording, Ingo E. & Piopiunik, Marc & Rodríguez-Planas, Núria, 2015. "Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants," IZA Discussion Papers 9433, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Immigrants; Language; Math performance; Linguistic distance; Age-at-arrival; Instrumental variable;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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