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Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth

This study uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to infer the legal status of Mexican and Central American immigrant youth and to investigate its relationship with educational attainment. We assess differences by legal status in high school graduation and college enrollment, decompose...

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Autores principales: Greenman, Emily, Hall, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24511162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/sot040
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description This study uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to infer the legal status of Mexican and Central American immigrant youth and to investigate its relationship with educational attainment. We assess differences by legal status in high school graduation and college enrollment, decompose differences in college enrollment into the probability of high school graduation and the probability of high school graduates' enrollment in college and estimate the contributions of personal and family background characteristics to such differences. Results show that undocumented students are less likely than documented students to both graduate from high school and enroll in college, and differences in college enrollment cannot be explained by family background characteristics. We conclude that legal status is a critical axis of stratification for Latinos.
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spelling pubmed-38165452014-02-07 Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth Greenman, Emily Hall, Matthew Soc Forces Education This study uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to infer the legal status of Mexican and Central American immigrant youth and to investigate its relationship with educational attainment. We assess differences by legal status in high school graduation and college enrollment, decompose differences in college enrollment into the probability of high school graduation and the probability of high school graduates' enrollment in college and estimate the contributions of personal and family background characteristics to such differences. Results show that undocumented students are less likely than documented students to both graduate from high school and enroll in college, and differences in college enrollment cannot be explained by family background characteristics. We conclude that legal status is a critical axis of stratification for Latinos. Oxford University Press 2013-06 2013-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3816545/ /pubmed/24511162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/sot040 Text en © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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title_short Legal Status and Educational Transitions for Mexican and Central American Immigrant Youth
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24511162
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