title: Language Barriers and Immigrant Health.
abstract: We study the impact of language deficiency on the health status of childhood migrants to Australia. Our identification strategy relies on a quasi-experiment comparing immigrants arriving at different ages and from different linguistic origins. In the presence of considerable non-classical measurement error in self-reported language proficiency, our results provide lower and upper bounds for a strong negative effect of English deficiency on health of between one half and a full standard deviation in the health score. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Ingo E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Isphording
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D003144:Communication Barriers; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057566:Self Report; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: International migration; health; language skills