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Bilingual education in Latin America: does Quechua-medium education improve peruvian indigenous children’s academic achievement?
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This study uses Peruvian school-level data from the Young Lives international study of childhood poverty to investigate the effect of Quechua-medium instruction on academic achievement. We estimate an education production function and find that indigenous children who attend Quechua-medium schools achieve mathematics scores 0.54 standard deviations higher than indigenous children who attend Spanish-medium schools. We find weak and inconclusive evidence that indigenous children who attend Quec...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Young Lives Publisher's website
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- Bilingual education in Latin America: does Quechua-medium education improve peruvian indigenous children’s academic achievement?
- Publication date:
- 2015-03-26
- ISBN:
- 9781909403505
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pubs:647603
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- pubs:647603
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- 2016-09-30
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- Young Lives
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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published version of a working paper "Bilingual education in Latin America: does Quechua-medium education improve peruvian indigenous children’s academic achievement?", published by Young Lives in 2015-03-26, available online: http://younglives.qeh.ox.ac.uk/publications/WP/bilingual-education-in-latin-america/bilingual-education-in-latin-america
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