RT Generic
T1 Identity and language policies
A1 Aspachs-Bracons, Oriol
A1 Clots-Figueras, Irma
A1 Masella, Paolo
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB The process of individual identity formation is still an enigma, as it is the capacity ofpublic bodies to intervene on it. In 1983 the Catalan education system becamebilingual, and Catalan, together with Spanish, was taught in schools. Using survey datafrom Catalonia and exploiting within and between cohort variation in exposure toCatalan language at school, results show that individuals who have experiencedgreater exposure to teaching in Catalan are more likely to say that they feel moreCatalan than Spanish. Interestingly, the effect appears to be present also amongindividuals whose parents do not have Catalan origins. To the best of our knowledge,this is the first paper to analyze how policies affect individual identity.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2007
FD 2007-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/2363
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/2363
LA eng
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 26 jun. 2024