TY - JOUR
T1 - Parents’ years in Sweden and children’s educational performance
AU - Smith, Christopher D.
AU - Helgertz, Jonas
AU - Scott, Kirk
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Smith et al.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents’ incorporation experiences, measured as time in Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course grades and national standardized test scores in Swedish and math by parents’ country of origin. Results show a positive effect of parents’ time in Sweden on their children’s performance in Swedish, but not for math performance. These results demonstrate the importance of parents’ linguistic acculturation on their children’s educational performance. Jel codes: I21, J15, J62
AB - This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents’ incorporation experiences, measured as time in Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course grades and national standardized test scores in Swedish and math by parents’ country of origin. Results show a positive effect of parents’ time in Sweden on their children’s performance in Swedish, but not for math performance. These results demonstrate the importance of parents’ linguistic acculturation on their children’s educational performance. Jel codes: I21, J15, J62
KW - Family fixed-effects
KW - Immigrant incorporation
KW - Intergenerational mobility
KW - Second generation
KW - Years since migration
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U2 - 10.1186/s40176-016-0054-2
DO - 10.1186/s40176-016-0054-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84983377490
VL - 5
JO - IZA Journal of Migration
JF - IZA Journal of Migration
SN - 2193-9039
IS - 1
M1 - 6
ER -