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The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement

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  • Nielsen, Helena Skyt

    () (Aarhus University)

  • Schindler Rangvid, Beatrice

    () (Danish Institute of Governmental Research)

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In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children's academic achievement. Mothers' years of residence tend to be more important for Danish, while fathers' years of residence tend to be more important for math. The effects vary by gender, and family-specific effects influence girls' and boys' educational attainment differently.

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  • Nielsen, Helena Skyt & Schindler Rangvid, Beatrice, 2011. "The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement," IZA Discussion Papers 6242, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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    1. Marta De Philippis & Federico Rossi, 2016. "Parents, Schools and Human Capital Differences across Countries," Discussion Papers 1614, Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM).
    2. De Philippis, Marta & Rossi, Frederico, 2016. "Parents, schools and human capital differences across countries," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 86233, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    Keywords

    second generation; immigrant children; scholastic achievement; years since migration; intergenerational mobility; fixed effects;

    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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