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Title: My Brother and Me: The Consequences of Being Foreign-Born

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: Immigrant children represent a significant share of the U.S. population. However, foreign-born children are often disadvantaged compared to their native-born peers due to differences in language skills, schooling and cultural integration. I use historical Census Data to analyze the differences in schooling and labor market outcomes between U.S-born and foreign-born sib-lings to understand the long-term effects of nativity. Children observed in the 1910 decennial Census are linked to their 1940 Census records using a unique method of linking individuals across Census waves. Compared to their native-born siblings, those born abroad are 10.5, 4.1 and 1.7 percentage points less likely to complete eighth grade, high-school and college respectively. The effects are larger for children who arrived at older ages. I do not find a significant impact on wages, employment, and other labor market outcomes. These findings indicate that foreign-born status is a significant determinant of long-term outcomes of children.

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4028138

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Authors: Stanishevska, Taisiia

Publisher: Elsevier

Data Collections: IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration

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