Falling through the Cracks? Grade Retention and School Dropout among Children of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Mary Lopez ()

American Economic Review, 2015, vol. 105, issue 5, 598-603

Abstract: We evaluate how intensified interior immigration enforcement impacts the likelihood that children of unauthorized immigrants will repeat a grade or drop out of school. Using a weighted index of the intensity of interior immigration enforcement at the MSA level, we find that increased enforcement has the largest impact on younger children ages 6 to 13. The estimates, which account for the non-random residential location of children and their families, reveal that increased enforcement raises young children's probability of repeating a grade by 6 percent and their likelihood of dropping out of school by 25.2 percent.

JEL-codes: I21 I24 J13 J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20151113
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