Educational attainment: analysis by immigrant generation
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This paper analyzed differences in educational attainment by immigrant generation (first, second, and higher order generations), and among the foreign born by country of birth and age at immigration, finding that second-generation American adults have the highest level of schooling, exceeding that of the foreign-born and of the native born with native-born parents.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2004-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 243 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Educational attainment & Foreign born.read more
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TABLE 5 (continued) 
Figure 1: Effect of age at immigration on educational attainment 
TABLE 2 REGRESSION ESTIMATES OF POOLED SAMPLE OF FIRST-GENERATION, SECONDGENERATION, AND NATIVE-PARENTAGE ADULTS, UNITED STATES, 1995 
TABLE 2 REGRESSION ESTIMATES OF POOLED SAMPLE OF FIRST-GENERATION, SECONDGENERATION, AND NATIVE-PARENTAGE ADULTS, UNITED STATES, 1995
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