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Title: Ethnicity and Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine's Immigrant Community

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: I examine the college attendance patterns of second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants in Maine in the early 20 th century relative to other ethnic groups using individual-level Census records. I employ the Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (ABE) algorithm to track second-generation Jewish, Italian, French Canadian, English Canadian and European immigrants from the 1910 Census to the 1940 Census. My logistic regression analysis indicates that second-generation Jewish immigrants in Maine attended college at significantly higher rates than their peers of similar background in every other ethnic group. While I cannot evaluate them, I also discuss potential explanations for the disparity in college attendance between Jews and other groups. Nash 1 Acknowledgements

Url: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/1313

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Authors: Nash, Jacob M

Institution: Colby College

Department: Economics

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Publisher Location: Waterville

Pages: 1--41

Data Collections: IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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