Campbell, S;
Nuevo‐Chiquero, A;
Popli, G;
Ratcliffe, A;
(2020)
Parental ethnic identity and child test scores.
Fiscal Studies
10.1111/1475-5890.12236.
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Abstract
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and the test scores of ethnic minority children. We use standard survey measures of the strength of parental identity alongside validated cognitive test scores in a rich British cohort study. We show that children whose mothers report either an adoption or an active rejection of the majority identity tend to score lower in cognitive tests at age 7, compared to those children whose mothers report neutral feelings about the majority identity. We find no consistent differences in test scores according to mothers’ minority identity. Our findings provide no support for education or citizenship policies which promote the adoption of the majority identity or discourage the maintenance of separate identities in ethnic minority communities.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Parental ethnic identity and child test scores |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1475-5890.12236 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12236 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Ethnic identity, national identity, test scores, child development |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10106547 |
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