Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society
| Autor: | Antonio Di Paolo, Ramon Caminal, Lorenzo Cappellari |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, European Commission, Fundación 'la Caixa' |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Natural experiment Bilingualism Identity (social science) Intergenerational transmission Settore SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICA 0502 economics and business Language proficiency Sociology 050207 economics 050205 econometrics Bilingüisme Language Language and languages 05 social sciences Causal effect Aptitud per a l'aprenentatge Linguistics language.human_language Language-in-education reform Intergenerational mobility General partnership language Catalan Learning ability Affect (linguistics) Llenguatge i llengües |
| Zdroj: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| Popis: | 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. 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). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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