The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states. Given the perceived … academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …

-white interracial marriages. Different from the previous studies that focus only on the role of individual education levels in …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …

This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues … include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable … diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …

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 …

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part … outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often perceived as irrational and suboptimal choices. Quantifying ethnic … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …

explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages …