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Title: Educational Attainment of First and Second Generation Immigrant Youth New Findings from National Longitudinal Data
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Cruz, Vanessa |
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Educational Attainment of First and Second Generation Immigrant Youth New Findings from National Longitudinal Data Research Brief No. 5, Urban Institute Class of 2008, March 2009. Also: http://www.urban.org/uisa/upload/UISA-Brief-5.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Urban Institute Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences; Social Environment; Socioeconomic Background; Undergraduate Research At the current pace, by the year 2040 one in three children will grow up in a household with at least one foreign-born parent (Suarez-Orozco et al., 2008). Due to growing disparities in educational achievement among first, second and third generation students, scholars have attempted to explain the success of those first and second generation immigrant students who excel. Perreira et al. (2006) found that first generation immigrant students are more likely to drop out of high school (at 13 percent) than their U.S.-born peers with foreign-born parents. This study focused on educational attainment of immigrant youth by generation using a sample of 4,384 twelve to fourteen year old participants from the National Longitudinal Survey of Immigrant youth 1997 (NLSY97), controlling for race, gender, family structure, parental citizenship, use of English in the home, and parenting style. This study specifically asks: how strongly associated is immigrant youth educational attainment with parental socioeconomic status, English spoken in the home, and parental classroom involvement. This study also asks whether educational attainment differs based on distance from the immigration experience. In particular, I challenge immigrant optimism-defeatist theories as potential explanations of the differences between first, second, and third generation immigrant youth's educational attainment. |
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Cruz, Vanessa. "Educational Attainment of First and Second Generation Immigrant Youth New Findings from National Longitudinal Data." Research Brief No. 5, Urban Institute Class of 2008, March 2009. |