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Title: The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores
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Locay, Luis Regan, Tracy Lynn Diamond, Arthur M., Jr. |
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The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores Working Paper No. 0710, Department of Economics, University of Miami, June 2009 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Miami Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Educational Attainment; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Family Background and Culture; Family Influences; Hispanic Youth; Hispanics; Home Environment; Human Capital; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Language Development Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We investigate the effect of speaking Spanish at home as a child on completed schooling and aptitude test scores using data from the NLSY79 on Hispanics who grew up in the U.S. We model the accumulation of traditional human capital and English fluency, leading to the joint determination of schooling and test scores. We find that speaking Spanish at home reduces test scores but has no significant effect on completed schooling. The reduction in test scores: 1) increases in magnitude in three of the tests when the parents are more educated; 2) is much more dramatic when the choice of home language is made endogenous; and 3) is not systematically greater for the verbal than for the math tests. |
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Locay, Luis, Tracy Lynn Regan and Arthur M. Diamond. "The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores." Working Paper No. 0710, Department of Economics, University of Miami, June 2009. |