We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in … Italy enroll disproportionately into vocational high schools, as opposed to technical and academically-oriented high schools …

-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …