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Intergenerational progress of Mexican-origin workers in the U.S. labor market

Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Even if we … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …

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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants

Schüller, Simone - 2011

A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...

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Long-term orientation and educational performance

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Özek, Umut; … - 2016

We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...

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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants

Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...

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Educational attainment of second-generation immigrants : a US-Canada comparison

Liu, Xingfei - 2014

In this paper, I analyze educational outcomes for second generation immigrants and compare them to those of natives. I use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using data extracted from the 1997 National Longitudinal...

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Intermarriage and the unhealthy assimilation of immigrant descendants

Giuntella, Osea - 2014

This paper studies the effects of assimilation on the health of Hispanics in the US. I exploit a unique dataset of linked birth records and use ethnic intermarriage as a metric of acculturation. Intermarried Hispanics have a significantly higher socio-economic status than endogamously married...

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The tower of Babel in the classroom : immigrants and natives in Italian schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - 2014

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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The impact of immigrant peers on native students' academic achievement in countries where parents of immigrants are relatively skilled

Seah, Kelvin - 2016

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between...

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Language assimilation and performance in achievement tests among immigrant children : evidence from a field experiment

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018

We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign-born children of immigrants were asked to take...

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Determinants of bilingualism among children

Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in the US (native born) and foreign-born children who...

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