Baumeister, Frauke; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2025
The development of English-language skills, a near necessity in today’s global economy, is heavily influenced by … historical national decisions about whether to subtitle or dub TV content. While prior studies of language acquisition have … not use subtitles. We find a large positive effect of subtitling on English-language skills of over one standard deviation …
