The superior academic achievement of Asian Americans is a well-documented phenomenon that lacks widely accepted explanation. Americans' advantage in this respect has been attributed to three groups factors: (i) socio-demographic characteristics, (ii) cognitive ability, and (iii) effort as measured by characteristics such attentiveness work ethic. We combine data from two nationally representative cohort longitudinal surveys compare Asian-American white students their educational trajectories...

Data from the Worker and Iron Status Evaluation are used to examine gendered patterns in children’s time market nonmarket work, schooling, leisure Indonesia ( N = 2,929). Boys spend more work; girls work. Work responsibilities increase with age as well gender differentials use. By 18, nearly 1 hour per day working enjoy significantly less time, but gap schooling is not significant, suggesting that parents children committed both work schooling. Additionally, Tobit regression results suggest...

Many argue that hegemonic gender norms depress boys' performance and account for the gap in achievement. I describe differences emergence of academic achievement between white Asian American youth explore how immigrant experience cultural expectations might observed differences. For students, boys are already underperforming girls kindergarten, with male disadvantage growing into high school. Americans, perform as well throughout elementary school but begin relative to at transition...

Our understanding of the sources educational inequality for estimated 250,000 undocumented immigrant college students in United States is limited by poor data. We use student administrative data from a large public university, which accurately identify legal status and include pre-enrollment characteristics, to determine effect on GPA graduation. find that are hyper-selected relative peers; failing account this difference underestimates academic outcomes. findings also highlight ways...

Despite growth in the number of Latino students enrolled U.S. colleges, foreign-born Latinos are less likely than both native-born and other immigrant groups to graduate. However, it is difficult understand lower educational attainment immigrants without considering variation enrolment by legal status. Until recently, undocumented have been blocked from higher education United States. Drawing upon illegality literature, as well longitudinal administrative data on 35,400 college students, we...

Abstract This study quantifies the economic effects of two major immigration policies aimed at legalizing undocumented individuals that entered United States as children and completed high school: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) DREAM Act. The former offers only temporary legal status to eligible individuals, whereas latter provides a track permanent residence. Our analysis is based on general equilibrium model allows shifts in participation between work, college,...

Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's new book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, revives scholarship from a period of relative stagnation elevates the discussion morass cultural essentialism. Its major contributions are to extensively articulate: (1) how much explanations actually class-based (2) selective migration creates conditions that promote social mobility. This book resolves empirical paradoxes in engages broader debates on race, immigration inequality.

Abstract A sizable portion of the undocumented population in US is Chinese but they are an understudied group. We analyze secondary literature and policies to understand immigration its historical contemporary contexts draw on interviews with migrants, community organizers, social workers, others working New York City, as well participant observation events, how illegality constructed experienced by migrants. show restrictive exclude most migrants from legal entry into US, force many endure...

This study quantifies the economic effects of two major immigration reforms aimed at legalizing undocumented individuals that entered United States as children and completed high school: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) DREAM Act. The former offers only temporary legal status to eligible individuals; latter provides a track permanent residence. Our analysis is based on general-equilibrium model allows shifts in participation between work, college non-employment. calibrated...

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration reform to affect undocumented immigrants in United States decades and offers eligible youth temporary relief from deportation renewable work permits. While DACA has improved economic conditions mental health of immigrants, we do not know how improves social mobility through its effect on educational attainment. This paper uses administrative data students attending a large public university estimate students'...

A growing literature examines the impact of immigration and law enforcement on undocumented immigrants their communities, but these studies are limited by lack reliable data documentation status focus federal enforcement. Leveraging administrative student from City University New York (CUNY) that reliably identify about 13,000 students among more than 350,000 first-year students, this article whether local policing practices do not ostensibly target can affect educational outcomes young...

Wage gaps between documented (including natives) and undocumented workers may reflect employer exploitation, endogenous occupational sorting productivity losses associated with lack of legal status. Identification the penalty is crucial to estimate aggregate economic gains from legalization. This paper presents a new identification strategy based on interplay educational attainment barriers. Our main finding that status reduces by about 12%.We also find Dreamers are positively selected...

We investigate why prior studies examining the effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on undocumented youth's college outcomes in United States have yielded mixed findings. draw unique administrative data from City University New York at time DACA's implementation and utilize difference-in-difference estimation to examine students’ GPA interruptions their progress. find that educational students enrolled were heterogeneous: It had a negative effect those who, policy,...

Contributing to the literature on institutional experiences of undocumented youth, this article by Holly E. Reed, Sofya Aptekar, and Amy Hsin explores “DACAmented” students’ managing their illegality campus how college staff faculty manage that while organizing programs support. Their analysis in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with more than one hundred students former thirty-five members at City University New York identifies multiple points tension. The “undocumented mismatch”...

We investigate why prior studies examining the effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on undocumented youth’s college outcomes in United States have yielded mixed findings. draw unique administrative data from City University New York (CUNY) at time DACA’s implementation and utilize difference-in-difference estimation to examine students’ GPA interruptions their progress. find that educational students enrolled were heterogeneous: It had as negative effect those who,...