Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Barry Chiswick and Noyna DebBurman ()
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Noyna DebBurman: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

No 1226, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit analysis. Pre-school enrollment is found to vary systematically with parental characteristics (income and education), immigrant generation, number of siblings, mother’s labor supply and country of origin. Among the foreign-born, differences in preschool enrollment are analyzed by country of origin. Among the U.S.-born children of immigrants pre-school enrollment is greatest among those with both parents foreign born.

Keywords: immigrants; children; school enrollment; pre-school (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J13 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2004-07
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Published - published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87

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