IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/lsu/lsuwpp/2009-01.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Gains from Green Cards: Immigrant Parents' Legal Status and Children's Scholastic Achievement

Author

Listed:
  • Ying pan

Abstract

In order to shed light on the intergenerational consequences of immigration legislation, this paper investigates the impact of the largest amnesty program in the U.S. history (IRCA) on scholastic achievement of immigrants� children. Using IRCA as a source of exogenous legal status, empirical estimates indicate that immigrants� legal status improves their children�s math scores by 0.65 of a standard deviation and the reading scores by 0.50 of a standard deviation. The above results account for misreporting in legal status among illegal immigrants by using a two-step semi-parametric method to purge the misreporting bias from conventional IV estimates.

Suggested Citation

  • Ying pan, 2009. "Gains from Green Cards: Immigrant Parents' Legal Status and Children's Scholastic Achievement," Departmental Working Papers 2009-01, Department of Economics, Louisiana State University.
    • Handle: RePEc:lsu:lsuwpp:2009-01
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.lsu.edu/business/economics/files/workingpapers/pap09_01.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:lsu:lsuwpp:2009-01. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/delsuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.