Common Tongue: The Impact of Language on Educational Outcomes
利用印度殖民时期省份的语言政策差异，发现官方语言与当地语言不匹配的地区识字率低18.0%、大学毕业率低20.1%，而1956年按语言重划邦界后差距缩小。
This article investigates the impact of official language policies on education using state formation in India. Colonial provinces consisted of some districts where the official language matched the district's language and some where it did not. Linguistically mismatched districts have 18.0 percent lower literacy rates and 20.1 percent lower college graduation rates, driven by difficulty in acquiring education due to a different medium of instruction in schools. Educational achievement caught up in mismatched districts after the 1956 reorganization of Indian states on linguistic lines, suggesting that political reorganization can mitigate the impact of mismatched language policies.