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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w12005 |
来源ID | Working Paper 12005 |
Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap? | |
Joshua Angrist; Aimee Chin; Ricardo Godoy | |
发表日期 | 2006-02-06 |
出版年 | 2006 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish. We use this policy change to estimate the effect of English-intensive instruction on the English-language skills of Puerto Ricans. Although naive estimates suggest that English instruction increased English-speaking ability among Puerto Rican natives, estimates that allow for education-specific cohort trends show no effect. This result is surprising in light of the strong presumption by American policymakers at the time that instruction in English was the best way to raise English proficiency. This has implications for medium of instruction policy in former colonies as well as U.S. education policy toward immigrant children. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12005 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/569656 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joshua Angrist,Aimee Chin,Ricardo Godoy. Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?. 2006. |
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