Impact of bilingual education programs on limited English proficient students and their peers: Regression discontinuity evidence from Texas

Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant increase in the probability that a district provides biling...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of public economics 2013-11, Vol.107, p.63-78
Hauptverfasser: Chin, Aimee, Daysal, N. Meltem, Imberman, Scott A.
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Zusammenfassung:Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant increase in the probability that a district provides bilingual education above this 20-student cutoff. Using this discontinuity as an instrument for district bilingual education provision, we find that providing bilingual education programs (relative to providing only English as a Second Language programs) does not significantly impact the standardized test scores of students with Spanish as their home language (comprised primarily of ever-LEP students). However, we find significant positive impacts on non-LEP students' achievement, which indicates that education programs for LEP students have spillover effects to non-LEP students. •Exploits a Texas policy rule to estimate the causal impact of bilingual education•Shows school programs for LEP students have spillover effects to non-LEP students•Providing BE (versus providing only ESL) increases non-LEP students' achievement•No significant impacts on Spanish home language (mostly LEP at one point) students
ISSN:0047-2727
1879-2316
DOI:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.08.008