%0 Report
        %A Isphording, Ingo E.
%A Piopiunik, Marc
%A Rodríguez-Planas, Núria
        %T Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9433
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9433
        %X This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and destination country languages. Using four PISA waves, we find a strong influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for their educational career.
        %K age-at-arrival
%K immigrants
%K linguistic distance
%K math performance
%K language
%K instrumental variable