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Title: Hispanic Educational Attainment: The Effects of Family Background and Nativity
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Wojtkiewicz, Roger A. Donato, Katharine M. |
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Hispanic Educational Attainment: The Effects of Family Background and Nativity Social Forces 74,2 (December 1995): 559-574. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2580492 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Groups; Family Background and Culture; Family Structure; Heterogeneity; Hispanics; Parental Influences; Sex Roles Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data from the 1979-1990 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are drawn on to examine the degree to which foreign birth explains the lower educational attainment of Mexicans & Puerto Ricans compared to whites in the US. Although foreign birth is a partial explanation of group differences, family structure & parental education are more important. However, when considering how the effects of nativity vary across Hispanic groups, it is found that US- born Puerto Ricans are no better off than foreign-born Puerto Ricans. There is also evidence of heterogeneity in the educational experiences of US-born Mexicans: those with foreign-born parents have higher educational attainment than those with US-born parents. 5 Tables, 30 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Wojtkiewicz, Roger A. and Katharine M. Donato. "Hispanic Educational Attainment: The Effects of Family Background and Nativity." Social Forces 74,2 (December 1995): 559-574.
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