❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12
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Awesome paper! How about role of market size? Small and open markets like Greece or Sweden, have no choice but to speak English to participate in global economy, + don't have economies of scale to justify dubbing. Incentive to use subtitles. Large ones like FRA or DEU have their own large markets...