Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …

approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …

returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human … capital is important for understanding the economic integration of immigrants. …

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom …

education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is … educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …

education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is … educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …