| Reference : The solution of the immigrant paradox: aspirations and expectations of children of mi... |
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| Business & economic sciences : International economics | |||
| Migration and Inclusive Societies | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/45431 | |||
| The solution of the immigrant paradox: aspirations and expectations of children of migrants | |
| English | |
Montes Vinas, Ana Cecilia  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM) >] | |
| Zanaj, Skerdilajda [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM) >] | |
| Zanaj, Skerdilajda [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM) >] | |
| Dec-2020 | |
| Yes | |
| [en] educational achievements ; immigrant paradox ; expectations ; aspirations ; Add-health database | |
| [en] In this paper, we push forward the hypothesis that misalignment between expectations and aspirations crucially affects the educational outcomes of young adults. Using AddHealth, a dataset of 20,774
<br />adolescents between the grades 7-12, we show that the difference in school performance between migrant children and natives lies within the aspirations and expectations that migrant children form. More <br />specifically, we find that positive misalignment between aspirations and expectations is a driving force <br />for higher effort and better education outcomes of immigrant teenagers in the USA. This force resolves <br />the well-known immigrant paradox. Furthermore, this result is specific to migrant children and does not <br />hold for second-generation migrant pupils. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/45431 | |
| also: http://hdl.handle.net/10993/45973 | |
| https://wwwen.uni.lu/research/fdef/dem/publications2/20202 |
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