 Child’s age at migration, high school course-taking and higher educationAnastasia Gorodzeisky, Yariv Feniger and Hanna Ayalon Children and Youth Services Review, 2023, vol. 155, issue C Abstract: The study examined the effect of child age at migration on high school course-taking and higher education attainment, focusing on Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrants who arrived in Israel at primary-school age. Based on a representative Israeli national sample, combining data from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Education, and higher education institutions, we applied multinomial regression models. The data did not support the ‘critical age’ hypothesis, according to which the educational outcomes of immigrant children start to decrease after a distinct age at migration when the ability to learn a new language begins to shrink. However, children who were older at migration and thus arrived closer to the stage when curricular differentiation begins in lower secondary education had higher chances of enrolling in less prestigious educational programs. Age at migration was not related to the chances of attaining an academic degree. Keywords: Age at migration; High school course-taking; Higher education attainment; Immigrant students; Israel (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:155:y:2023:i:c:s0190740923003845 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107188 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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