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Title: Educational Attainment: The Fence First and Second Generation Immigrant Youth Straddle
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Cruz, Vanessa |
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Educational Attainment: The Fence First and Second Generation Immigrant Youth Straddle Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Association of Public Policy Management (APPAM) Research Conference, November 6-8, 2008 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences; Social Environment; Socioeconomic Background; Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. One out of every five U.S. grow up in immigrant families (Green et al., 2008). By 2040, one in three children will grow up in a household with at least one foreign born parent (Suarez-Orozco et al., 2008). Perreira and colleagues found that first generation students are more likely to drop out of high school at thirteen percent than any of their U.S.-born peers (2006). A Pew Hispanic Report in 2002 found thirty-seven percent of Caucasian American high school graduates between the ages of 25-29 years old have received a bachelor's degree, and that holds for twenty-one percent of African American high school graduates. Among second generation Latinos, more than 10 percent have an associate's degree but only 16 percent have a bachelor's degree. Due to these growing disparities, scholars have established the immigrant optimism and defeatist theories to explain for the success of foreign-born youth in contrast to the lower educational attainment U.S.-born peers. However, this longitudinal study argues against these theories because there are more statistically significant variables that surpass immigrant attitude theories. Therefore, the author asks how strongly do poverty levels, English spoken in home and parental classroom involvement impact the youth's educational attainment? Based on a sample size of 4,384 from participants in the NLSY97 (1997-2005) the author more generally asks how does educational attainment differ based on generation status? |
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Cruz, Vanessa. "Educational Attainment: The Fence First and Second Generation Immigrant Youth Straddle." Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Association of Public Policy Management (APPAM) Research Conference, November 6-8, 2008. |