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Title: School and Neighborhood: Residential Location Choice of Immigrant Parents in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: This paper studies how immigrant parents value their children's school quality relative to native-born Americans. Parent valuation of education is examined through the differential effects of school quality on the residential location choices of households with and without children. The analysis relies on data from the 2000 Census and focuses on the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. The results suggest that immigrant parents place a positive weight on school quality when choosing residences, with immigrants in the median income quintile and Asian immigrants valuing schools significantly higher than their native counterparts. The paper further explores the variation across immigrants to get at the potential mechanisms for the differential valuation of school quality. Selective migration among immigrants and higher potential returns to education for the children of immigrants may explain why immigrant parents emphasize school more in residential location choices.

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Authors: Yi Zhan, Crystal

Publisher: University of California, San Diego

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration

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