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Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among the Children of Immigrants

Richard Akresh and Ilana Redstone Akresh
Journal of Human Resources, July 2011, 46 (3) 647-667; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.46.3.647
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vol. 46 no. 3 647-667
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.46.3.647
Published By 
University of Wisconsin Press
Print ISSN 
0022-166X
Online ISSN 
1548-8004
History 
  • Received February 1, 2009
  • Accepted August 1, 2010
  • Published online June 10, 2011.
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© 2011 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

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