How Far the Apple Falls: The Role of Culture on Second-Generation Educational Attainment

This paper analyzes the effect of culture – measured by aggregate levels of an immigrant parent’s home country educational attainment – on the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in America. I use 2005-2014 October U.S. Current Population Surveys (CPS) data and the Barro-Lee data...

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Main Author: Liu, Vanessa
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2017
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1625
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2704&context=cmc_theses