Open AccessThe Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants' Educational Experiences 1990–2002
Author(s) -
Potochnick Stephanie,
Mooney Margarita
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international migration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.109
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1747-7379
pISSN - 0197-9183
DOI - 10.1111/imre.12111
Subject(s) - immigration , longitudinal study , dropout (neural networks) , settlement (finance) , demographic economics , reading (process) , multivariate statistics , psychology , sociology , political science , medicine , economics , mathematics , statistics , finance , pathology , machine learning , computer science , law , payment
The 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of immigration in terms of volume and settlement patterns and also witnessed significant changes in the social contexts confronting immigrants. These changes could have significant repercussions for immigrant youth. While previous research on high school dropout behavior suggests immigrant youth are faring better in US schools, our research provides a less optimistic outlook. Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988) and Educational Longitudinal Study (2002), we use multivariate analysis, regression decomposition, and fixed effect models to examine how reading and math test scores of children of immigrants changed during the 1990s.