Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58600 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6451
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative correlation observed in the raw data is mainly an artefact of selection: non-native speakers are more likely to attend school with disadvantaged native speakers. We attempt to identify a causal impact of changes in the percentage of non-native speakers within the year group. In general, our results suggest zero effect and rule out negative effects.
Subjects: 
non-native English speakers
educational attainment
JEL: 
I2
J15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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