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Title: Family Background and Higher Education Attainment Among Children of Immigrants
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Lauderdale, Mitzi K. Heckman, Stuart J. |
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Family Background and Higher Education Attainment Among Children of Immigrants Journal of Family and Economic Issues 38,3 (September 2017): 327-337. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-017-9537-4 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Background and Culture; Immigrants; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study uses a modified form of Perna's educational choice model (Studying college access and choice: A proposed conceptual model, Springer, Berlin, 2006) to examine whether children of immigrants have an "immigrant advantage" related to educational attainment. Children of immigrants represent approximately one in four children in the US and are the fastest growing segment of school-aged children. Using data from all 16 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997-2013), a random effects regression analysis indicated that children with at least one immigrant parent had a higher likelihood of higher education attainment. When separate regressions were run by race/ethnicity, the immigrant advantage was only present for Black and Hispanic respondents. Results presented evidence of omitted variable bias when modeling higher education attainment where parental immigration status was absent. |
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Lauderdale, Mitzi K. and Stuart J. Heckman. "Family Background and Higher Education Attainment Among Children of Immigrants." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 38,3 (September 2017): 327-337.
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