Pre-school enrollment: an analysis by immigrant generation

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Pre-school enrollment: an analysis by immigrant generation

Chiswick, B.; DebBurman, N.; (2004) Pre-school enrollment: an analysis by immigrant generation. (Discussion Paper Series 04/04). Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit analysis. Pre-school enrollment is found to vary systematically with parental characteristics (income and education), immigrant generation, number of siblings, mother’s labor supply and country of origin. Among the foreign-born, differences in pre-school enrollment are analyzed by country of origin. Among the U.S.-born children of immigrants pre-school enrollment is greatest among those with both parents foreign born.

Type:	Working / discussion paper
Title:	Pre-school enrollment: an analysis by immigrant generation
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version:	http://www.econ.ucl.ac.uk/cream/publicationsdiscus...
Language:	English
Keywords:	JEL classification: I21, J15, J13. Immigrants, children, school enrollment, pre-school
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14320