TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
AU  - Harmon, Colm P.
AU  - Staneva, Anita
        TI  - The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development
        PY  - 2018/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11800
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11800
        AB  - In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze children's language and emotional development in depth. We relax the usual assumption that the production function underpinning child development is not itself a function of the age of the child and estimate the bilingual gap in children's language and emotional development as a cumulative process that depends on current and past endowments of cognitive and non-cognitive capacity. We find that the language development of bilingual children is not significantly different to that of their monolingual peers; however, there is evidence of a positive effect of bilingualism on emotional development.
        KW  - production function
KW  - cognitive and non-cognitive skills
KW  - value-added model
KW  - cohort studies
        ER  -