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Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform
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- Publicado: 02 Mayo 2018
Capperalli, L. and Di Paolo, A. (2018): Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform, Economics of Education Review, 64, 90-101.
Abstract
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.
Understanding intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain: Education and marital sorting
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- Publicado: 03 Abril 2018
Davia, M. Á. and Legazpe, N. (2017): Understanding intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain: Education and marital sorting, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 52, 1-14
Abstract
This paper contributes to the literature on intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain by exploring how this phenomenon is shaped by education and marital homogamy. To that aim, a set of univariate, bivariate and trivariate ordered probit models are estimated on a sample of Spanish-born individuals from the module on intergenerational transmission of disadvantages in the Spanish Survey on Living Conditions 2011. We split the sample into two age groups (30–39 and 40–49-year-olds), and find similar levels of intergenerational transmission of deprivation amongst younger cohorts despite their higher educational mobility. Education is more relevant as a channel for the transmission of disadvantages across generations in the younger subsample than in the elder one. Marital sorting has a more relevant impact on the transmission of social disadvantage in the younger group. Finally, in the elder subsample, there seems to be a more genuine (beyond the observed transmission channels) transmission of (dis-)advantage, while in the younger subsample, the observed transmission channels seem to fully explain the inheritance of the risk for material deprivation
Keywords: Intergenerational transmission of deprivation European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Spain Marital sorting Educational expansion Trivariate ordered probit models