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SUBMITTER: Bleakley H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2440707 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of human resources 20080101 2
In 2000 Census microdata, various outcomes of second-generation immigrants are related to their parents' age at arrival to the United States, and in particular whether that age fell within the "critical period" of language acquisition. We interpret this as an effect of the parent's English-language skills and construct an instrumental variable for parental English proficiency. Estimates of the effect of parent's English-speaking proficiency using two-stage least squares yield significant, positi ...[more]