%0 Report
        %A Yao, Yuxin
%A Ohinata, Asako
%A Ours, Jan C. van
        %T The Educational Consequences of Language Proficiency for Young Children
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9800
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9800
        %X This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In addition, we study whether there are spillover effects of peers' dialect-speaking on test scores. We find no evidence for spillover effect of peers' dialect-speaking. The test scores of neither Dutch-speaking children nor dialect-speaking children are affected by the share of dialect-speaking peers in the classroom.
        %K spillover effects
%K test scores
%K dialect-speaking
%K language
%K academic performance